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Major Planets
| OBJECT NAME | MAGNITUDE |
|---|---|
| Sun | -26.74 |
| Mercury | -0.9 |
| Venus | -4.6 |
| Moon (Lunar Eclipse) | -12.7 |
| Mars | +1.3 |
| Jupiter | -2.05 |
| Saturn | +0.5 |
| Uranus | +5.7 |
| Neptune | +7.8 |
| Pluto | +14.4 |
Dwarf Planets
Comets
| OBJECT NAME | DESCRIPTION | OBSERVED |
|---|---|---|
| Hale-Bopp | Long-period comet | March 1997 |
| Wirtanen | Short-period comet | December 2018 |
| ATLAS | Near-parabolic comet | March 2020 |
| NEOWISE | Long-period comet | July 2020 |
| ZTF | Long-period comet | January 2023 |
| Tsuchinshan-ATLAS | Long-period comet | October 2024 |
| C/2025 A6 Lemmon | Long-period comet | October 2025 |
| C/2025 R2 SWAN | Long-period comet | October 2025 |
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