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Old January 19th 05, 10:00 PM
Aidan Karley
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In article , Mr. 4X wrote:
time? I mean, we all know what light levels a full moon
produces, but what is "223 times dimmer than our sun" like?


Well, maybe like night in a modern city which has lots of street lights.

I heard a statistic recently that normal office lighting is around
1/500th of the brightness of midday sunshine. You could estimate the
difference by comparing the settings that an auto-exposure camera gives
you.

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