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> This is a *stupidly tiny number*. If you asked POV-Ray to render this, and
> you sent out a million, billion, trillion rays, every single damned one
> would completely miss such a tiny object. It seems astonishing to me that
> such an absurdly minute object is visible at all - but Wikipedia claims it
> is...
Good job the real world isn't a backward raytracer then :-)
I suspect even a true point source (ie no physical size) was sending out the
same amount of light from that distance, you would be able to see that too.
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