Why does moon in daylight looks transparent?
In: Physics
I want to share a relevant trick in photoshop.
Say you want to insert an object behind a transparent thing.
Don’t make the thing transparent, make the object you are inserting transparent.
**The human eye can’t tell which of the objects is actually transparent**
It tends to fall back on remembering what objects are usually transparent.
In this case it’s not the moon that’s transparent, it’s the blue sky.
The blue sky is refracting blue light into your eyes.
Light being reflected by the moon is punching through the transparent atmosphere.
So the light from the moon is mixing with the light being refracted by the atmosphere.
Your brain interprets this as something being transparent, in this case you seem to have interpreted it as the moon being transparent.
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