Why does bright moonlight make starlight seem allot dimmer???

Answer 1

When you go out at night, the iris of your eye opens to allow more light into your eye. If there are no lights nearby, it opens to its widest. The stars, then, seem brightest. When the moon is out, especially when it is full, your eye compensates for the bright light by having the iris close and making the opening to your eye smaller, thus reducing the amount of light coming into your eye. Now the stars seem dimmer.

HTH

Charles

Answer 2

The very same way a beautiful woman in red heels walks into a room and all the other women look like starlight.

Answer 3

Disability or contrast glare. Scattered light reduces the blackness of the dark sky, reducing the apparent brightness of the stars.

A worse effect in many places comes from light pollution from streetlamps.

Though tonight in the UK the moon will be turning to blood... a full lunar eclipse.

Answer 4

Light pollution.

It's the same as if you try to use a flashlight in a well lit room, you will hardly be able to see the beam.

Answer 5

for the same reason we cant see the sars by day but not as hard as the sun... the light refracts in our atmosphere and kind of lights it up a little making stars harder to see

Answer 6

Ambient light obscures a lot of the star light.

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Answer 8

it really has to do with your eyes, night vision is enabled by chemicals in your eyesthat bright lights can bleach out but it returns in about twenty minets you can test that at home.