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What does a 3.2 magnitude mean?

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3.2 on the Richter scale is relatively small quake often not even felt but just recorded by instruments.

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A 3.2 magnitude star is one that is about 0.052 times as bright as a magnitude 0 star. It is a logarithmic scale. The sun has relative magnitude of -27, the full moon -13, Venus (max) -5, Saturn (max) 0, the naked eye can see light to about 6, 7 x 50 binoculars to about 10, the Hubble space telescope to 32.

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