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About the Cover
Cover: Landscape photographed under the moonlight (courtesy of Joseph A. Shaw). While moonlit scenes appear colorless to humans, their color characteristics, which can be perceived by some nocturnal species (see commentary by Kelber and Roth, pp. 781−788), are nearly identical to those in daylight. In contrast, twilight and starlight are dramatically different from daylight and from each other (Johnsen et al., pp. 789−800). Insets (above the Plough constellation) show the nocturnal hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor digitally altered to how a color-normal human would view it during nautical twilight (left) and starlight (right). Color constancy is not assumed. (Original photo by Michael Pfaff.)
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