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2 August 2023 at 12:25 pm
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Robin Leadbeater
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Voyager 2 is currently around 160au away so the Earth is always within 0.35 deg of the Sun
That prompted me to grab a virtual pencil and back of envelope. So to the unaided eye from there the Sun appears star-like (unresolved at just ~12 arcsec diameter) and ~mag -15.7, ~15x brighter than the full moon.