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What are their apparent magnitudes and absolute magnitudes?

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Compare apparent magnitude and absolute magnitude?
Apparent Magnitude is the star's brightness as it appears from earth, while, Absolute Magnitude is the apparent brightness of a star if viewed from a distance of 32.6 light years away.
What is the Sun's absolute magnitude and its apparent magnitude?
It has an apparent magnitude of −26.73 and an absolute magnitude of about 4.83.
What is apparent and absolute magnitude?
Apparent magnitude is the measure of how bright a star appears to be from our vantage point. Absolute magnitude is the measure of how bright a star would be if it were located 10 parsecs from earth.
How is the suns apparent magnitude -26.72 and its absolute magnitude 4.8?
Apparent magnitude is the brightness of a star as viewed from Earth, whereas absolute magnitude is the brightness of a star as viewed from ~32.6 light years away.
How does the apparent magnitude of a star differ from its absolute magnitude?
astronomers call the brightness of a star as it appears from earth as its apparent magnitude. The stars actual brightness as shown by the amount of light it can actually give off its absolute...