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> The sun shines there no brighter than a star

Worth noting though that the Sun looks a lot brighter than other stars from Pluto. Pluto orbits out at 40 AU, so the Sun is 40^2 = 1,600 times dimmer. In contrast, as seen from Earth, the full Moon is 400,000 time dimmer than Sun. Therefore the Sun from Pluto is about half way between the Moon and Sun on earth (on a logarithmic scale). It's roughly twilight.



NASA made a tool to help visualize daylight on Pluto by letting you know when during twilight the Earth is getting about the same amount of sunlight as Pluto does at noon.

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/plutotime/


So Yuggoth must lie out in the Oort cloud?




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