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Dear Lightologists,See my portion of the Cosmos ? [ Invalid Attachment ] Nice eh ?...being delivered Tuesday !However, the Cosmos Agent (Stu ) who sold it to me said I ought to buy a torch when I go for a journey between these stars cos it will be quite dark !Is " Hi, I'm Stu, I'll be your Cosmos Agent for the evening " correct ?.....If I was in the middle of this bunch of stars and everything in the sky was that far away...would I or would I not be able to see my arm ?...do I need a torch to have fun with my stars ?Surely the fact that I could see the little lights would mean some of it is reflected on me ?....or would it just be too feint to see ?Please advise as I have a choice of a 3watt torch or a 5 watt torch !ThanksneilCosmos Portion Owner
Quote from: neilep on 17/06/2008 01:00:03Dear Lightologists,See my portion of the Cosmos ? [ Invalid Attachment ] Nice eh ?...being delivered Tuesday !However, the Cosmos Agent (Stu ) who sold it to me said I ought to buy a torch when I go for a journey between these stars cos it will be quite dark !Is " Hi, I'm Stu, I'll be your Cosmos Agent for the evening " correct ?.....If I was in the middle of this bunch of stars and everything in the sky was that far away...would I or would I not be able to see my arm ?...do I need a torch to have fun with my stars ?Surely the fact that I could see the little lights would mean some of it is reflected on me ?....or would it just be too feint to see ?Please advise as I have a choice of a 3watt torch or a 5 watt torch !ThanksneilCosmos Portion OwnerSincerely I don't know if the star's light is enough to make you see your arm, however it's certainly enough to NOT make you see the stars covered by your arm, so you could perceive your arm as an...arm-like dark region in the space...
Your place must be awfully cluttered up with stuff by now - that's quite some buying spree you've been on lately. You'll need a torch - it'll be very dark. Pluto, for example, and which is a lot closer to stars than you'll be, isn't regarded as a good place to sunbathe.
If you could see the stars and were wearing a mirror-like (bacofoil) spacesuit, then you could see the reflection of the stars in the suit.In practice (!) you're gonna need a torch and some thermal underwear: the temperature of interstellar space is below -200 C.
Thanks Karen........I am not liaising myself with the astronauts of old because they had the sun to play with and the moon and the earth !!I am putting myself as far away from our solar system and any other body as the stars in my cosmos piccy !Awwwwwww...me shine ?.......Only when polished !! :-)
Wouldn't it be roughly the same as going out on a night with no moon and zero light pollution?
The zodiacal light is a faint, roughly triangular, whitish glow seen in the night sky which appears to extend up from the vicinity of the sun along the ecliptic or zodiac. In mid-northern latitudes, the zodiacal light is best observed in the western sky in the spring after the evening twilight has completely disappeared, or in the eastern sky in the autumn just before the morning twilight appears. It is so faint that it is completely masked by either moonlight or light pollution. The zodiacal light decreases in intensity with distance from the Sun, but on very dark nights it has been observed in a band completely around the ecliptic. In fact, the zodiacal light covers the entire sky, being responsible for 60% of the total skylight on a moonless night. There is also a very faint, but still slightly increased, oval glow directly opposite the Sun which is known as the gegenschein.