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Before going to bed, Mel and Janet took Bates outside for a look at Dannos. Though barely twenty-five hours away, its distance from Earth was still ten times the distance to the Moon. Janet was able to find it with a pair of binoculars and point it out to Bates. With his genetically perfect eyesight, Bates was probably able to see it even without the binoculars, but even with a lot of descriptions and drawings from Janet he still wasn't sure which of the dim points of light was Dannos. Stars, planets, or asteroids, they all looked the same to him.
"Why is it so dim?" asked Bates.
"Why don't you use your newly Traveler rejuvenated brain to figure that out?" asked Mel.
"OK, given its size and distance, the Moon is several million times brighter, and even Venus would be thousands of times brighter."
"Right!” said Mel.
"Well, we'll get a much better view of it tomorrow night for sure," Bates noted.
"Afraid so."