"Mr.T" MrT@home wrote in
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Moonlight's color temperature at its highest is about 4000.

I haven't seen a reference for this, but even assuming it is so, it's
still higher than many people here prefer it would seem.


Nice way to test: Take a camera and tripod, do a long exposure shot of a
moonlit scene. Then view the phtot on a monitor in a context you know. I
haven't done this but I think it will bear out the claim that the moon's
light is brownish, as it looks when you look directly at it. The blue comes
from a combination of scattered light and scotopic sensitivity to the blue
part of its spectrum.