why we never see the shadow or reflection of the satellite during fullmoon at night?
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Because it does not pass between where you are and the moon, or between the sun and the moon (and if it did I would think it would be so small on such a bright field any shadow would be lost in the 'blur' and distance)
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You can even see the Moon in the daytime because it is big and brightly lit by the Sun. The surface of the Moon is about as reflective as an asphalt road--rather dark but not totally black. When you look at the Moon, you are seeing the light which reflects off it. This is not nearly as bright as the Sun, but it is up to 100,000 times as bright as the brightest nighttime star. \nDuring the day, the brightness of the sky washes out the light from the stars: a region of the sky including a bright star is only very slightly brighter than a region of the sky without a bright star, so your eye cannot notice the difference. However, the region of the sky containing the Moon is much brighter, so you can see it. You can also sometimes see Venus during the day if the conditions are right and you know exactly where to look, but anything dimmer is lost. \n\nIt might be useful to think of the sun as a large light bulb, and the moon as a large mirror. There are situations where we can't see the light bulb, but we can see the light from the bulb reflected in the mirror. This is the situation when the moon is out at night. We can't see the sun directly because the earth is blocking our view of it, but we can see its light reflected from the moon. However, there are also situations where we can see both the light bulb and the mirror, and this is what is happening when we see the moon during the day. You can explore this for yourself with a light and a hand mirror. Depending on which way you face (away from the light or sideways to the light) you can see either just the mirror, or both the light and the mirror. \n\nI hope this helps!
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If the moon was covered with aluminium foil, the reflected light would be brighter but not as bright as daylight, in accordance with the proportion of the moon that is visible.\n\nAnd yes, the earth would heat up a little, because the reflection contains not just extra light, but extra heat as well... and since night is the time when the shadowed earth dissipates the heat, it wouldn't be able to do that if the moon was reflecting some warmth.
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It is Olbers' Paradox.\n\nWhy isn't the night sky as uniformly bright as the surface of the Sun?  If the Universe has infinitely many stars, then it should be.  After all, if you move the Sun twice as far away from us, we will intercept one quarter as many photons, but the Sun will subtend one quarter of the angular area.  So the areal intensity remains constant.  With infinitely many stars, every angular element of the sky should have a star, and the entire heavens should be as bright as the sun.  We should have the impression that we live in the center of a hollow black body whose temperature is about 6000 degrees Celsius.  This is Olbers' paradox.  It can be traced as far back as Kepler in 1610, and was rediscussed by Halley and Cheseaux in the eighteen century; but it was not popularized as a paradox until Olbers took up the issue in the nineteenth century.
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Check out the graphic on this site: http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/teachers/moonglow.html\n\nImagine yourself standing on the left side of the Earth away from the sun where it's, of course, night.  See how high the the moon is from the Earth?  The suns rays can still reach it, even though our ground is in darkness...  Hard to describe in words but just try to picture it...
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Because the same face of the planet is not shown to sun all the time. The planet revolves as well as spin about its axis. so face that is exposed to sun changes with time. This is the very reason for day and night.
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Its still a little bit dark and the light from earth when reflected back to the moon enables u 2 see the dark side of the moon but this will only happen when there is not enough light to block your view.
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Even on a cloud free night the atmosphere will still affect the infra red light as it descends to earth.\n\nEarth;s air is continuously moving, a ray of starlight is refracted in a random direction causing the star we see to twinkle. This twinkling is extremely irritating to astronomers as it blurs the images from telescopes, leaving the resolution of the largest observatories no better than that from a 10cm telescope. (Larger instruments are built to collect more light, producing brighter images but with the same resolution). The only way to entirely avoid this problem is to launch a telescope into space. This is why NASA built the Hubble Space Telescope.
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The shape of the moon does not actually change, but it is the shadow of the earth that gives the illusion. The moon revolves around the earth due to which we have full moon, no moon and half moon periods as it travels betweeen the shadow of the earth. During the period from no moon to full moon, the earth is in between the moon and the sun due to which the earth's shadow falls directly on the moon and thus we cannot see the illuminated part of the moon.As the earth graduallly moves away from the position, we can see the illuminated part of the moon which appears in the shape of a crest.  Also due to the non existence of atmosphere on the moon, there is distinct difference in the illuminated and the dark part of the moon. During the period from full moon to no moon, it again moves from the shadow of the earth and thus at one point is completely overshadowed by the earth and doing the disappearing act.
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You reminded me of my childhood days. I used to ask my father the same Questions.\n\nClouds don't go any where during night. They are still there it only that there is not enough light for us to see them. Remember when you see moon light we see those clouds around or sometimes the moon hiding behind the clouds.
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It is a lot easier to demonstrate this with graphics than trying to explain it in text.  You can likely find a good diagram if you go to google it.\n\nFirst imagine the sun.  Now imagine the earth revolving around the sun.  Keep in mind that the earth and the sun are both extremely small compared to the distance that the earth is from the sun.  this means it's like two specks of dust revolving around each other in a basketball court, to give some perspective.\n\nNow imagine the moon revolving around the earth but ignoring gravitational effects of the sun (for simplicity).  Since the earth is so small compared to these revolutions, imagine that the earth very rarely blocks the light from the sun shining on the moon.\n\nNow when you observe the moon, if it is roughly between you and the sun, it is the backside of the moon that is lit.  This means the only part of the moon that you see is the shadow - or the new moon.  If when you observe the moon it is roughly behind the earth, you get to see the part of the moon that is being shined on by the sun - a full moon.  Since the moon revolves around the earth at a rate different from the rate at which the earth spins on its axis, the moon will change its orientation to give us our progression through the phases of the moon.\n\nJust an additional bit - eclipses are those rare times when the earth's shadow actually DOES hit the moon.. making what would've been a full moon into something else (a lunar eclipse).  The more commonly noticed (due to the drastic change in light during the day :D ) solar eclipses are when the moon directly blocks the sun's light from the earth.  These occur at regular intervals over series' of years.
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What you are seeing is the portion of the moon illuminated by the sun that is visible on earth on that particular day.  When the moon is full, you are seeing the full view of the side of the moon that is in full sunlight.  When it is in half-moon phase, you are seeing half of the side that is lit, and half of the dark side.  When it is a new moon, the side facing earth is dark.  Try to keep in mind that, even though the same side of the moon is always facing earth, the moon makes an orbit around the earth in about 28 days--AND ONE REVOLUTION ON ITS OWN AXIS--during which it will go through the phases that you observe from earth.  I have found that making a model helps to understand this.  Use a flashlight for the sun.  Then get a globe for the earth, and a styrofoam ball or a tennis ball for the moon.  You can lay the flashlight on a table or chair, or get someone to hold it for you.  Now focus on the moon making its revolution around the earth, while always facing the earth the same way.  You will see that as the moon circles the earth, the part that is illuminated by the sun changes, resulting in the phases that you see.
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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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It's always daytime in space. Unless you are stuck behind a planet or a moon or something else, then it's dark as hell... The spining of the Earth creates day and night.
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The same reason that your carpet isn't or your tee shirt isn't. The only light we see anything by is sunlight, but the light of the sun is reflected back in different colours according to the material reflecting it; in the case of the moon, grey dust.
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Well, it depends how good your eyesight is, but if you have perfect vision, yes it is very possible to see sunlight reflecting off a satellite or space station with the naked eye. It is not possible to see the light being generated within the space station, only the reflection of the sun from it. That's why the best time to look for satellites and space stations is just after sunset or just before sunrise, otherwise they are in the earth's shadow for the remainder of the night.
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The full moon is visible as full anywhere\non earth where it is above the horizon...\nobviously if it is far in the southern\nhemisphere and you are far north, like\nin northern Finland, you may not see the\nfull moon at all... (but if you could it\nwould still appear full)