New moon from an unexpected angle.

[Einion Yrth]

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[Eric Mc]

It's amazing how black the moon looks in reality.

[Simpo Two]

Everything is black unless it has light shining on it (suns excluded of course!)

[MrBrightSi]

Incredible, i have to say that the moon in the night sky is a blinder, trying to look at it through any telescope without a filter is next to blinding.

It's incredible to see that the moon rotates with earth, i remember a work-mate saying that the moon is some alien construct due to the perfection of it's size and the way it rotates.

Some people don't deserve science.

[Eric Mc]

Simpo Two said:

Everything is black unless it has light shining on it (suns excluded of course!)

To amplify what I meant to say - given equal lighting conditions, it's amazing how black the moon looks in comparison to earth. And this is indeed true as the moon has a very low albedo - it's just that we don't see the low albedo so clearly.

[Moonhawk]

Eric Mc said:

Simpo Two said:

Everything is black unless it has light shining on it (suns excluded of course!)

To amplify what I meant to say - given equal lighting conditions, it's amazing how black the moon looks in comparison to earth. And this is indeed true as the moon has a very low albedo - it's just that we don't see the low albedo so clearly.

Yep - it has around the same albedo as an aged asphalt road.

[Hooli]

Eric Mc said:

And this is indeed true as the moon has a very low albedo

Maybe that's why it hasn't got a mate?

[Eric Mc]

No, it's because "I is black".

[Halmyre]

There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact, it's all dark.

[Eric Mc]

Very true.

[cahami]

Halmyre said:

There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact, it's all dark.

No no no my copy is under the stairs, it does exist and im sure it has helped up the price of Ferrari
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