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How much light does the moon produce?

Updated: 6/30/2023
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13y ago

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Light Produced by the Moon - NONE!

It only reflects light from the sun.

Moon actually cannot produced its own light, in fact as what above stated it only reflects sunlight from the surfaces.

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10y ago

As bright as the florescent light

Zero. The moon does not actually make it's own light. At the new moon phase, it is virtually impossible to look at the moon because it is not lit up by the sun and it is also very close to the sun.

The full moon only looks bright because the moon's nearside (the side we can see from Earth), directly faces the sun causing it to appear bright. (about 1 lux).

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11y ago

For the Moon's hemisphere facing Earth, the amount of sunlit Moon varies from 0% at New Moon, 50% at both the Quarter phases to 100% at full Moon.

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13y ago

Exactly 50%. Same as the nominal fraction of earth and every other planet in the solar system.

We're not saying that there is any one place on the moon that's always illuminated.

What we're saying is that at every moment, half of the moon is in sunlight, but the

exact area that it includes keeps changing, just as it does on earth.

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12y ago

Almost exactly 50% (very slightly more) at any given moment, except during a lunar eclipse.

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14y ago

Roughly 8 and 1/3rd .

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13y ago

No it reflects back sunlight.

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12y ago

50%

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