On Monday, 17 January 2022 at 22:54:47 UTC, James Nicoll wrote:
> In article <
ff9bf544-4021-49e1...@googlegroups.com>,
> Ross Presser <
rpre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Monday, January 17, 2022 at 3:18:32 PM UTC-5, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> >> Arlo and Janis: The New Moon
> >>
https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2022/01/17
> >>
> >> The new moon was beautiful last night at 7 pm. And very bright while we
> >> were out walking a mile.
> >
> >I guess you meant "the newly FULL moon". New moon is when you can't
> >see it (or can barely see it).
> It would have been bright on the sunlight side, though.
I don't think Lynn was walking on the sunlight side of
the moon.
He said it was night, after all.
I suppose the crescent moon can be "bright" without
providing a lot of illumination.
Theoretically, most stars in the night sky are roughly
as bright as the sun, but, from our point of view, smaller.