(thing) by rosencrantz Wed Apr 05 2000 at 18:04:12
One method used by observational astronomers to estimate the distance to an object by comparing its apparent magnitude to its absolute magnitude.

Goes something like this: M - m = 5 * log (d / 10pc), where M is absolute magnitude, m is apparent magnitude, and d is the distance to the object in parsecs.
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