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OCR: TRUE BRIGHTNESS THE TRUE BRIGHTNESS of a celestial object (also called its absolute magnitude) is the visible-light brightness that it would have if it could be observed at a standard distance of 32.6 light years. An object's true brightness differs from its apparent brightness, which is a measure of how bright it looks to an observer on the Earth.