In article <3ea40516@news.povray.org>, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> 
wrote:

>   Even here on Earth, if you are in a brightly lit room your eyes are
> adapted to the brightness (the size of the pupils and all that stuff)
> and it's difficult to see many stars outside, even if it's a dark and
> clear night. You need to turn off all lights and wait until your eyes
> adapt to the darkness before you begin seeing lots of stars.

In that case, the brightness is on your side of the glass, so glare 
masks many of them. Open the window and you can see more stars. Also, 
your eyes move around, adapting to what they are looking at, and have a 
wider dynamic range than most cameras. Just immediately after opening a 
door and walking out of a brightly lit room, I can see many stars, and 
on the Moon there isn't an atmosphere to absorb and scatter so much 
light. From what I've read, the stars are quite brilliant when viewed 
from the Moon.

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