Submitted by ParticleDetector t3_z63e7m in Showerthoughts
ParticleDetector OP t1_iy2mpmy wrote
Reply to comment by EliOfTheSong in You see more suns at night than in the daytime. by ParticleDetector
Haha! That makes a kind of sense! So…you see more suns in the daytime than at night?
And this goes down the rabbit hole of
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Nights where there are no moon - you see more stars because the moon occupies space in the sky
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Days where the sun and moon are in the sky together - you see least stars because now there are two bodies taking up some space in the sky.
EliOfTheSong t1_iy2nmfk wrote
Ah you make a point that we have to take into account the stars the sun is physically blocking. If there are at least two stars behind the sun (and whose light is not gravitationally lensed around it), then night is back in the lead.
ParticleDetector OP t1_iy2nqk4 wrote
Unless the moon is up and also blocks two stars!
Lol!
mfb- t1_iy3kjmp wrote
The Moon is up in the day as often as in the night.
Stars are not uniformly distributed so the number varies during the (24 hour) day in some complex pattern.
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