2. Noun. (astronomy) Reflected earthlight visible on the Moon's night side. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Earthshine
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earthshine
Literary usage of Earthshine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Astronomy Without Mathematics by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (1883)
"That is the reflection of the earthshine back from the moon. When she is farther
from new, the proper moonshine is stronger, and so the earthshine is ..."
2. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"77 between Sir W. Herschel's idea that Aristarchus and some other spots visible
in the earthshine were volcanoes in actual eruption, and the observations by ..."
3. Correlation Theory of Chemical Action and Affinity by Thomas Wright Hall (1888)
"... when the Earth's periphery is at its intensest Oscillation between the earthshine
powers and the Sunshine powers. It is through Plants, therefore, ..."
4. Moon-O-Theism: Religion of a War and Moon God Prophet, Volume II of II by Yoel Natan (2006)
"earthshine (earthlight) revealed to the ancients that the entire moon existed
... earthshine is moonlight that reflects from the earth back to the moon. ..."
5. The Book of the Courtier by Baldassarre Castiglione (1903)
"... turned nearly directly towards the moon, and that the moon was in consequence
illuminated slightly by this ' earthshine,' just as we are by moonshine. ..."
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