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The magnitude of a celestial object as measured on a photograph may be considerably different than that measured by the eye. This happens because most film emulsions react more strongly to red light than does the human eye, which tends to be more sensitive to blue light. An object that is redder in color will tend to have a brighter photographic magnitude than visual magnitude.

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