He, he....made you look. :wink:

"Blinding" is right. The eye is incredible as it can work with a range of flux with a high end 100 trillion times that of the low end flux. Yet, the sun still ads "pain to this game". It is 1.5x brighter above our atmosphere. One author of a magazine article (claiming the sun to be greenish) stated an astronaut told him he saw the sun as extremely bright white. No surprise.

A strobe idea was born on this board. Known as SAD (Solar Attenuation Device), it reduced the flux by 99.9% and still the Sun was brillliant but still white.


[FWIW, SAD cost about 15 cents in materials to make so I'm saving it for the Smithsonian to recognize it as the cheapest astronomical instrument ever built and operated. Not that they should be intrested. :wink: ]

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.