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The Moon is uniquely spectacular among astronomical objects—the only one bright enough to be visible in broad daylight, and which provides enough light to work by at night. Sometimes amateur astronomers challenge one another to see if they can take photographs of shadows cast by the light of Venus, which can just about be done from an incredibly dark site. By contrast, shadows cast by moonlight are so easily apparent that they can even be seen by the unaided eye in a light-polluted town.
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Ford, D. (2014). The Moon. In: The Observer's Guide to Planetary Motion. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0629-1_5
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