What do you call the light that shines from the earth to the moon?
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That's called earthshine. Moonshine is homemade liquor.
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Some people incorrectly call the far side of the Moon the dark side of the Moon. The far side is never visible from Earth and the near side is always visible from Earth. But the far side not always dark, just like the near side is not always light.
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The moon is basically a great big lump of dull coloured rock that floats around quarter of a million miles from us.  Just like earth, it's illuminated by the sun so what you're seeing is reflected sunlight.\n\nIt can appear as different colours due to the atmosphere here on earth.\n\nWhen the moon is up in the sky you're looking at it through a thin layer of atmosphere but when it's low on the horizon you're looking through a greater amount of atmosphere.\n\nThe way that our atmosphere breaks up sunlight into differnt colours (Rayleigh Scattering) affects the colour that the moon appears to be.  So too can particles in the atmosphere - particularly dust and volcanic ash which often gives it a reddish tinge.
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Sunlight is white, just like light bulb light. The moon is illuminated by sunlight just like your newspaper is illuminated by light bulb light when you are reading it at night. Both the Sun and the light bulb are really hot, but you don't touch either one, do you? Now clearly the sun is WAY hotter than a light bulb, but it is also WAY farther away. Both the Moon and Earth are very far from the sun and so they both get about the same amount of heat from the Sun, but we just are not close enough to get red hot.
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The phases of the moon occur due to its relative position to us and the sun. The sun always shines on half of the moon (except on the rare occassion when the earth is in the way causing a lunar eclipse). If the moon is behind the earth, we see it as a full moon as we can see all of the lit side. When the moon is beside the earth, we see half the lit side and half the side in shadow, which appears to us as a half moon. When it's in front of the earth its a new moon which isn't visible as we can only see the side of the moon in shadow. In between the stages we see the crescent waxing and waning moons.
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When the light from the sun hits the moon, it is reflected to us which causes "Moonlight". This is the same light and source that allows us to see a bit of the shadows on the moon. \n\nThe suns and moons position in relation to one another is also what gives us the phases of the moon.  When the moon is directly opposite of the sun (with Earth not being directly in the line of sight) this gives us our full moon. \n\nIn short, there is only one type of light on the moon, the suns light hitting the moons surface.
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That's not the earth's shadow.  That only happens during a lunar eclipse.  What you are seeing is the different phases of the moon.
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The moon reflects sunlight and even reflected sunlight can interact with droplets of water in the atmosphere such as thin clouds like a layer of fog.  You see the light as a ring because that is the angle of reflection (or refraction) of light from the moon through the moisture's spherical drops to your eyes.  The moon can even produce moonbows, similar to rainbows (but no pot of gold?).
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The orange and red tints that the Sun and Moon sometimes take on are caused by the particles in the Earth's atmosphere. \n\nWhen light (or more specifically, packets of light called photons) from an astronomical object passes through the Earth's atmosphere, it scatters off of particles in the latter. It turns out that these particles like to scatter blue light more than they do red light; so "bluer" photons (those with shorter wavelengths) tend to get scattered, and "redder" photons (those with longer wavelengths) pass through. So, astronomical objects look redder from Earth than they would from space, because the redder wavelengths from the objects penetrate the atmosphere better than the bluer ones. Incidentally, this is why the sky is blue: blue light from the Sun is scattered in all directions on its way to the Earth. \n\nBut how does this explain the occasional redness of the Moon or the Sun? Your son may have noticed that they always occur when the Sun or Moon is close to the horizon. If you think about it, sunlight or moonlight must travel through the maximum amount of atmosphere to get to your eyes when the Sun or Moon is on the horizon (remember that that atmosphere is a sphere around the Earth). So, you expect *more* blue light to be scattered from Sunlight or Moonlight when the Sun or Moon is on the horizon than when it is, say, overhead; this makes the object look redder. In other words, the Sun or Moon tends to look orange or red when it is rising or setting because that's the time when the light has to travel through the most atmosphere to get to you. The effect is exacerbated when there are thin clouds in front or behind the Sun or Moon: the clouds themselves often glow bright pink as well, because they are so good at scattering blue light
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All natural light sources generate a "spectrum" of frequencies that approaches the "black body" radiation curve. The peak of that curve denotes the temperature of the emitting object. Certain frequencies can be affected in transit via interaction with materials as in emission and reflection nebula (ie. various places within the Orion constellation). The sun emits UV radiation commensurate with its black body ideal.\n\nUNLESS someone can show that the moon absorbes ALL UV frequencies on reflection then by definition:\n\nMOONLIGHT DOES INDEED CONTAIN UV FREQUENCIES\n\n===============================================\nSome of you people amaze me, you answer questions that you know NOTHING about. Answers like "No because it is reflected light" are a case in point. Is your blue shirt invisible in the mirror because the light coming from your shirt is lost as it reflects off of the mirror. I THINK NOT! Reflected light IS LIGHT. Some of it is absorbed, reflected, refracted but it is light. YES; the UV portion in moonlight is very weak, hey guess what -ALL THE LIGHT frequencies in moonlight are weak; THATS WHY MOONLIGHT IS DIM.\n==============================\nUV is NOT produced only from objects above 24000 degrees. It is produced at ALL temperatures, but the lower the temperature the lower the amount of UV that is produced. PLEASE Google "black body radiation"
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The moon gets its light from the sun!  Way out in outer space, the sun produces light and heat.  The sun's energy is reflected off the surface of the moon and bounced back to the Earth.  What we see is the reflection of the sun's light on the moon.
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Light from the moon passing through Ice crystals in Earth's upper atmosphere.\n\nI have included links to a couple of web pages that include photos and explanations.
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The plane is nearer to us. The light rays are diverging towards us.  Though the moon and meteor or are far away. They are extended source of light.  The moon’s rays are parallel. In this situation both lights from meteor and plane will not be visible to us in the bright Back ground of moon’s light.
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it's because they use the moon to navigate.  artificial light confuses them.
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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON.
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Get a softball and a flashlight.\n\nHold the softball in front of you and hold the flashlight beside it so it's beam shines onto the ball.\n\nIf the light is coming from beside it it's like a half moon.\n\nMove the flashlight so that it's shining on the ball but from slightly further away from you and the ball.\n\nIf the light is coming from slightly behind and beside the ball it'll be like the waning moon.\n\nPut it another way, the moon has day and night on it's surface as well. The bright part you see is the half that's being illuminated by the sun.\n\nOn the moon the day night cycle takes around thirty days. The night is fifteen earth days long and the day is fifteen earth days long.
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no it's not cos of the earth's shadow on the moon. its cos of the position of the sun and the angle at which the sun's rays hit the moon. the moon moves around the earth. if it moves further from the sun, less light will be reflected and you see a half-moon or quarter-moon.\n\nas u know, the light hte moon 'projects' is actually the reflection of light. the moon isnt a source of light. \n\nwhen the sun is directly behind the moon, and it shines on the 'back' of the moon, this causes an eclipse cos ppl on earth can only see a dark circle (the moon - as it does not reflect light in this case) and a whitish circle around the moon (the sun's rays)\n\nhope this helps!! :D