(meteorobs) Setting Sun Magnitude?

[Bias, Peter V]

I think a full moon is about -12 or -13 so a setting sun would have to
be many times brighter.  Each magnitude is 2 1/2 times brighter than the
next so perhaps a -20 is more like it.  I recall the famous picture of a
bright Leonid over Hong Kong during the 1998 storm of fireballs was
projected as a -17.  Still, don't think it was as bright as a setting
sun.

Pete Bias 

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Lew>>Wow, this report calls the fireball "as bright as the   setting
sun"??<<
 
What would this magnitude be about? -12 to -15 maybe?
GeoZay

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