Timeline for Moonlight and the night side of a tidally locked planet
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| Sep 11, 2015 at 22:41 | comment | added | Youstay Igo | It depends on you how much bright you want to make the night side. Generally speaking, an airless moon will be more shiny and reflect more of the sun's light, hence making the night side not only much more bright, but also slightly warmish. If you want to make the night side more dark (e.g. as dark as a full moon summer night on earth) then change the size and composition of the moon. Make the moon smaller so that it has lesser surface area for reflecting the star's light. Or give it an atmosphere so that it reflects less light than it receives from the star (that part of light is absorbed). | |
| Sep 11, 2015 at 19:37 | comment | added | G-Temez | Thank you for this answer. It's great that you not only gave the answer to the question, but you also expanded on the subject. I didn't expect such a "moonday" to have luminance of about 2000 lux (for winter), I expected the value to be in the hundreds lux. Very informative. | |
| Sep 11, 2015 at 19:26 | vote | accept | G-Temez | ||
| Sep 11, 2015 at 13:42 | history | answered | Youstay Igo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |