The moon is just a few light-seconds away from earth; that’s why they could have conversations with ground control during the moon landings. Moon will go dark a few seconds after the sun.
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potustheplant@feddit.nl 2 months agoThe moon also doesn’t emit it’s own light. It would take longer for the moon to “disappear” than it would for the sun but it wouldn’t be the whole night.
5too@lemmy.world 2 months ago
philthi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I agree with you, but also… I’m not sure that I’d notice that I could see the moon a few minutes ago and now I can’t (unless I happened to be looking at it as it happened)… I feel like that is something that could be happening every single night and I’ve never noticed.
The sun disappearing is like… Super noticeable by comparison.
potustheplant@feddit.nl 2 months ago
You would notice the lack of light. The night isn’t pitch black xD
Alk@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Most cities have brighter light pollution than the moon can provide.
philthi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe if I lived in the countryside, here in a city, I only really notice the moon if I’m looking for it (which I do often, I love seeing our moon).
potustheplant@feddit.nl 2 months ago
I live in the city and the moonlight is clearly noticeable so I guess it depends. I mean, a city can be considered as such with as little as 50k people so I guess that, statistically, the majority of people that live in a city would most certainly notice the lack of moonlight.