Sentence examples for opposition brightness from inspiring English sources

Although Mercury is farthest from Earth when it is full the greater illuminated area that is visible and the opposition brightness surge more than compensates for the distance.

This is partly due to the brightness enhancement of the opposition effect; at quarter phase, the Moon is only one-tenth as bright, rather than half as bright, as at full moon.

The opposition effect is a nonlinear surge of brightness towards the backward scattering geometry.

However, both the Earth and Saturn orbit the Sun on eccentric orbits, which means their distances from the Sun vary over time, and therefore so do their distances from each other, hence varying the brightness of Saturn from one opposition to the other.

At opposition on April 15, it was 19 arc seconds in diameter and magnitude +0.2 in brightness.

In 2010, Vesta reached opposition in the constellation of Leo on the night of 17 18 February, at about magnitude 6.1, a brightness that makes it visible in binocular range but generally not for the naked eye.

His brightness.

Brightness ascends my thighs.

▶ Turn down TV brightness.

The brightness is nauseating.

Kai guang, opening brightness.