Because it's only marginally related to the topic I'm just going to post this here instead.
It's over 1000.
Not 100.
I know what a log scale is.
Graph courtesy of wikipedia.

Assuming 6.5 and 8.5 for the sake of convenience, thats 10^14.5 for 6.5 mag and 10^17.5 for 8.5 mag.
10^17.5/10^14.5 = 1000