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{{short description|Light that reaches Earth from the Moon}} {{other uses|Moonlight (disambiguation)}} [[File:Holma Boat Club by the light of the moon.jpg|thumb|250px|Moonlight illuminates a boat club in [[Holma, Lysekil Municipality|Holma]], Sweden.]] '''Moonlight''' consists of mostly [[sunlight]] (with little [[earthlight (astronomy)|earthlight]]) reflected from the parts of the [[Moon|Moon's]] surface where the [[Sun|Sun's]] light strikes.<ref name=Toomer>{{Cite journal|first=G. J.|last=Toomer|author-link=G. J. Toomer|title=Review: ''Ibn al-Haythams Weg ur Physik'' by Matthias Schramm|journal=[[Isis (journal)|Isis]]|volume=55|issue=4|date=December 1964|pages=463β465 [463β4]|doi=10.1086/349914}}</ref>
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