Visibility of explosions from space

I'm trying to figure out whether spacecraft could see explosions occurring on the surface of a planet, or under what conditions they could.

Given a spacecraft equipped with a duplicate of the Keck telescope, using visible light only, watching a planet similar to Earth, at what distance could it see the explosion of one ton of TNT, occurring at sea level at night under a clear sky?

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