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  2. Orders of magnitude (illuminance) - Wikipedia

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    100 microlux 100 microlux: Starlight overcast moonless night sky [1] 140 microlux: Venus at brightest [1] 200 microlux: Starlight clear moonless night sky excluding airglow [1] 10 −3: 1 millilux: 2 millilux: Starlight clear moonless night sky including airglow [1] 10 −2: 1 centilux: 1 centilux: Quarter Moon 10 −1: 1 decilux: 2.5 decilux ...

  3. Flash blindness - Wikipedia

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    Other sources restrict the use of the word to temporary, reversible vision loss, distinguishing it from permanent blindness in a hierarchy of effects: "when the eye perceives bright light one of four reactions may take place. These are, in order of increasing brightness: dazzle, after image formation, flash blindness, and irreversible damage.

  4. Candela per square metre - Wikipedia

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    As a measure of light emitted per unit area, this unit is frequently used to specify the brightness of a display device. The sRGB spec for monitors targets 80 cd/m 2. [3] Typically, monitors calibrated for SDR broadcast or studio color grading should have a brightness of 100 cd/m 2. [4]

  5. Luminance - Wikipedia

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    A luminance meter is a device used in photometry that can measure the luminance in a particular direction and with a particular solid angle. The simplest devices measure the luminance in a single direction while imaging luminance meters measure luminance in a way similar to the way a digital camera records color images.

  6. Glare (vision) - Wikipedia

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    Discomfort glare is a psychological sensation caused by high brightness (or brightness contrast) within the field of view, which does not necessarily impair vision. [2] In buildings, discomfort glare can originate from small artificial lights (e.g. ceiling fixtures) that have brightnesses that are significantly greater than their surrounding.

  7. Luminosity - Wikipedia

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    The Pogson logarithmic scale is used to measure both apparent and absolute magnitudes, the latter corresponding to the brightness of a star or other celestial body as seen if it would be located at an interstellar distance of 10 parsecs (3.1 × 10 17 metres). In addition to this brightness decrease from increased distance, there is an extra ...

  8. Lux - Wikipedia

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    The lux (symbol: lx) is the unit of illuminance, or luminous flux per unit area, in the International System of Units (SI). [1] [2] It is equal to one lumen per square metre.In photometry, this is used as a measure of the irradiance, as perceived by the spectrally unequally responding human eye, of light that hits or passes through a surface.

  9. Adaptation (eye) - Wikipedia

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    The decrease in calcium ion influx after channel closing causes phosphorylation of metarhodopsin II and speeds up the cis-retinal to trans-retinal inactivation. [13] The phosphorylation of activated rhodopsin is mediated by recoverin. [13] The regeneration of the photopigments occurs during dark adaptation albeit at markedly different rates. [15]