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What is the unit for 'magnitude' in terms of the Isophotal diameter of a galaxy?
Every site and AI and Google say that one way of measuring a galaxy's diameter is in terms of its isophotal diameter, using the blue D25 standard, using units of, "25 mag per arcsec2".
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