Starlight Symphonies of Oak and Glass by Alexandria V. Nolan

Starlight illuminance coincides with the human eye's minimum illuminance (~0.1 mlx) while moonlight coincides with the human eye's minimum colour vision illuminance (~50 mlx). Starlight can be understood to be composed of three main spectra types, continuous spectrum, emission spectrum, and absorption spectrum.

Starlight spectroscopy, examination of the stellar spectra, was pioneered by Joseph Fraunhofer in 1814. The average color of starlight in the observable universe is a shade of yellowish-white that has been given the name Cosmic Latte. In contrast to previously developed active infrared system such as sniperscope, it was a passive device and did not require additional light emission to see. The United States Army spent millions of dollars in the 1950s and onward to develop a starlight scope, that could amplify starlight, moonlight filtered by clouds, and the fluorescence of rotting vegetation about 50,000 times to allow a person to see in the night. Starlight is also a notable part of personal experience and human culture, impacting a diverse range of pursuits including poetry, astronomy, and military strategy. He referred to the brightest stars in his catalog as first-magnitudes stars, which were the brightest stars and those so faint he could barely see them were sixth-magnitude stars. He sorted the stars into six brightness categories, which he called magnitudes. Hipparchus did not have a telescope or any instrument that could measure apparent brightness accurately, so he simply made estimates with his eyes. Observation and measurement of starlight through telescopes is the basis for many fields of astronomy, including photometry and stellar spectroscopy. During nighttime, albedo describes solar reflections from other Solar System objects, including moonlight, planetshine, and zodiacal light. Sunlight is the term used for the Sun's starlight observed during daytime. It typically refers to visible electromagnetic radiation from stars other than the Sun, observable from Earth at night, although a component of starlight is observable from Earth during daytime. Starry sky crossed with the Milky Way and a meteor

Starlight Symphonies of Oak and Glass by Alexandria V. Nolan