How moon gets the light. and why it varies?

Question

How moon gets the light. and why it varies?

Answer 1

The Moon's light comes from the Sun. The Moon is decently reflective, so we can see it by the light that bounces off it. The Moon's apparent shape changes because the side of the Moon that is lit faces towards the Earth at some times, and away at others. You may know that the same side of the Moon always faces the Earth. However, the Moon does change its orientation relative to the Sun; it experiences a cycle of day and night. When the lit, day side of the Moon faces directly at the Earth (when the Moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun), we see a full Moon. When the day side faces away and the unlit, night side of the Moon faces Earth (when the Moon is between the Earth and Sun), we see a new Moon.

Answer 2

Moonlight is the light that comes to Earth from the Moon. This light does not originate in the Moon, but is actually reflected sunlight. The intensity of moonlight varies greatly depending on the current lunar phase, but even the full moon typically provides only a faint illumination of about 0.2 lx, so the full moon is about 500,000 times fainter than the sun. When the moon is viewed at high altitude at tropical latitudes, the illuminance can reach 1 lx.[1] The color of moonlight, particularly near full moon, appears bluish to the human eye compared to most artificial light sources.

The times that the Moon rises and sets change due to its motion about the Earth. Because the Moon orbits the Earth in the same direction that the Earth spins, the time from one moonrise to the next (or one moonset to the next) is longer than one day - almost 25 hours.

During the brightest full moons, the Moon can have an apparent magnitude of about −12.6. For comparison, the Sun has an apparent magnitude of −26.8. When the Moon is in a quarter phase, its brightness is not one half of a full moon, but instead is only about 1/10. This is because the lunar surface is not a perfect Lambertian reflector and because shadows projected onto the surface also diminish the amount of reflected light.

There are different phases of the moon, but the moon does not really change its shape. The different shapes are from different amounts of light being reflected on the moon. The differences in the light depends on the position of the Earth, moon, and sun.Phases of the moon include a New Moon, which is when the moon looks dark. There is no light reflected so we do no see the moon. Then there is a crescent moon because there is a little bit of light on the moon.Next is the first-quarter moon. It looks like a half-moon then. There are other phases, such as the Full Moon, which happens two weeks into the month. We can see the whole face of the moon then. There is a Gibbous Moon which happens between the first-quarter and half moon, and also between the full and the last-quarter moon.

Answer 3

The moon gets mostly lit by the sun, and as someone already said, the phase of the moon determines how bright it looks from your perspective.

The moon also gets some light reflected off Earth from the sun, called earthshine, which you can see when the moon is either new or partly full as you can see the bit of the moon not lit from the sun still slightly lit up.

Answer 4

The moon is merely reflecting the light of the sun. That is your crescent moon, the Earth blocking the light on the dark part of the moon. The vacinity of the moon to the earth also changes the amount of reflected & refracted light.

Answer 5

the moon get light from the sun.the moon is rotating in the orbit so the intencity of light varies with respect to it.

Answer 6

it's orbit around the sun, eliptical. bammmm baby..i'm gone.

Answer 7

i think the russians have some kind of battries in there

Answer 8

just as earth gets.