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This includes the zenith-depedence of FWHM, which scales as airmass^0.6, and extinction in the various bands bands. The coefficient of the final term comes from the airmass dependence of seeing, a^0.6, and the 2.5 factor for magnitudes, so that 2.5*0.6=1.5.
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Some references
LSST science book
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