If I did the math right, that means from a star that's near the limit of human perception under ideal conditions, your eye is taking in ~650 photons per second when fully dilated.
@starkatt I learned a nee word from this, "psychophysics", and it's a whole fascinating branch of things. Unsurprisingly coined by a German scientist. :-)
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