• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    65
    edit-2
    11 months ago

    Pretty sure the sun is way more than seven times brighter than the moon

    Edit: after a quick internet search, the sun looks to be about 400,000 times brighter than the moon

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      6711 months ago

      That might be, but the moon is more important, since it shines at night when it’s dark. The sun is only in the sky during the day, when there’s plenty of light anyway.

      • kase
        link
        fedilink
        511 months ago

        during the day, when there’s plenty of light anyway

        b- because of the sun, no? or is that the joke i’m missing lol

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      3811 months ago

      Technically, TECHNICALLY, the Sun is infinitely brighter than the Moon since it emits no light at all ☝️

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        3011 months ago

        eh, as a videographer who measures and labels the output of lights professionally sometimes, we count bounced lights as lights.

      • aname
        link
        fedilink
        411 months ago

        Technically, TECHNICALLY, TECHNICALLY, moon absorbs a lot of the incoming sunlight and a lot of the light from the moon is black body radiation instead of straight reflection. Moon does emit light.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      411 months ago

      The moon has an albedo of roughly 6% and is so small compared to the sun. So yep 400,000 times checks out