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Re: Daylight Venus and Daylight Saving
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2022 Mar 18, 13:24 -0700
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2022 Mar 18, 13:24 -0700
Rafael Caruso, you wrote:
"During the transition from night through twilight to day, the sensitivity of the rod pathway decreases as background (sky) brightness increases. In these conditions, the rod pathway is said to "saturate", and loses its ability to mediate the detection of dim stimuli. If you wish, the "common name" for this property of human vision in bright light, is "rod saturation". "
Wow. Thank you for that detailed and very clear explanation! And yes, rod saturation sounds like the perfect name for it.
Frank Reed
