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Method of propagation
editIf we were on a ship in the ocean, with nothing but the ocean on the horizon and the starlight shining down from above, can we confidently say that the light from each star comes directly from each light source to our eye in a "line of sight direction"? I think the answer is yes. So the starlight intensity available to our eye is the net sum of the reduced intensity of the starlight of all the stars, and we distinguish the individual stars by a criteria related to their relative intensity.WFPM (talk) 18:27, 13 December 2011 (UTC)