what is moon light?

Answer 1

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. The color of moonlight, particularly near full moon, appears bluish to the human eye compared to most artificial light sources.

Moonlight is often considered more romantic than other types of light.

Also, the term Moonlighting generally refers to one working at a second, lesser, job after any current daytime jobs; it is also the name of a popular 1980s sitcom.

Answer 2

Light of the sun falls on the moon,the natural satellite of the earth. this light reflects and falls on the earth which is very close to moon. this sun light which is reflected by the moon to the earth is known as moon light.

Answer 3

Moonlight is the light that comes to Earth from the Moon. This light does not originate in the Moon, but is actually reflected sunlight

Answer 4

Obviously, the Light of the sun which is reflected by the moon is known as moon light. Or do You mean Anything else of different meaning?

Answer 5

a seemingly easy question, eh? well number 1, there's no such thing as moonlight. number 2, the moon we see is due to the reflection of sunlight from the moon's surface by it's minute surface particles which are akin to microscopic glass spherules.

to make a succint point, observe the moon on its half phase i.e. halfway across its waning or waxing phase. you'll see exactly half the moon. why? because the moon, in its path round the earth gets to such a point in the space where it approximately forms a right angled triangle with the earth and sun. but still an exact hemisphere of moon is in sunlight. we see just the half part of it because of its curvature. the other half of the hemisphere you can see if you fly out to a point halfway on the imaginary line joining the moon and the sun in that imaginary right angled triangle.

but why does the rest half does not seem to be reflecting light. because any spherical object in space can be illuminated on exactly half of its volume by another luminescent body. so, since the part you can't see on the moon simply does not receive sunlight and is in dark. so there's no moonlight. hmmm...and we thought moonlight is for young hearts "mooning" over each other!

oh, and one more point. moonlight is not all that strong as we see here on earth. it seems brighter because there's no other object near the moon which is even a hundredth as bright. it's like this - take a pencil torch in a room lit by some light. switch it on. the light don't impress you much, eh? now switch it off and go into a room with no light on. after a minute or so, switch on the pencil torch again. now see how bright the light seems to be? reflected light from the moon similarly affects our senses. in fact, the moon's albedo (measurement of light reflected from a planetary body's surface) is only 7/100 or 0.07!! if you happen to be in space and you see the moon simultaneously with the earth, it would appear grayish to your eyes (and senses) and not the bright white you see here from earth.

Answer 6

during morning the sun light is reflected to moon and in the night the the moon gives the light to the earth reflected by the sun in the morning

Answer 7

The moon is a kind of mirror. It reflects light from the sun back to Earth.

Answer 8

When sun rays hit the moon surface, the latter reflects the light. That's what we call moon light.

Answer 9

It is the reflection of the sun's rays off the surface of the moon. The phases of the moon are the result of the earth's shadow being cast on the surface of the moon. { The earth being between the sun and the moon at that time.}

Answer 10

When sun rays hit the moon surface, the latter reflects the light. That's what we call moon light.