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Suppose you are right. The effective temperature of the moon is 100 degrees Celsius. It is a grey-body, so its spectrum is dominated by black-body - e.g. it wou
by skolos 8y ago
Suppose you are right. The effective temperature of the moon is 100 degrees Celsius. It is a grey-body, so its spectrum is dominated by black-body - e.g. it would be similar to spectrum of black-body with temperature lower than 100 degrees Celsius. So your argument is that the light we see from Moon is same as light we would see from a black body heated to less than 100 degrees C? Try putting a charcoal in boiling water and please report to us if you see it lighted up as white as the moon.
- ummonk 8y agoI think you're mixing up spectral temperature with effective temperature. Effective temperature is about total power (per the Stefan Boltzmann law), not about the color of the light (per Wien's law). Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_temperature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_temperature with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature