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ashen light of the moon from the Picacho on 15-05-2010

The Earthshine is weak light that illuminates part of the lunar disk not bathed in sunlight and that without it would be invisible from the Earth .

is especially noticeable during the first and last days of the lunar cycle when the Moon's sunlit Earth visible from the is very small or nil, if the moon is under age new . Then, almost all the Earth's surface is visible from the moon bathed by sunlight and reflects part of that light to the moon (the albedo of Earth is 0.39). In sum, the ashen light is in the lunar soil, which in light of the moon is to us shortly before, during, or shortly after full moon . Since Earth is much larger than the Moon, it enjoys a night light so intense that for the afterglow that in our world, preceding the arrival of the night .

The photos are taken from the Picacho in the Sierra de Cadiz in the Natural Park of the Acorns, also took advantage of Venus was about to get the whole picture from different points of view. All are made with the tripod and the Canon EOS 1000D, exposure times and ISO used place them in the photo.

Paronámica to view the ashen light of the moon and Venus above. Exposure of 5 sec. to ISO 400.