Since this post has veered off moonlight lets steer it back to some relevance in this case sunlight.
Here is an image I took of the Sun.
I hope you are not going to make one your stupid offensive comments and claim it is another fake image.
This is one of those freakish images where the 1/6000th second exposure corresponded to when the earth's atmosphere was very still and revealed mottled surface details due to solar convection that is not ordinarily seen in a 5 inch telescope without expensive line filters to bring out the detail.
Being an object which produces light where there are no shadows, the sunspots are regions of cooler temperature while the darkening of the limb is due to variations in the solar atmosphere temperature which increases with depth.
At and near the centre of the solar image, an observer sees the deepest and hottest layers that emit the most light.
When approaching the limb, the gas density decreases with increasing radius as the Sun is a sphere where only the upper, cooler layers are observed at the limb which produce less light.
The Catholic Church like certain members in this forum read their own ideas into the Bible.
The Church was influenced by the teachings of Aristotle and incorporated ideas that are not explicitly found in the Bible such as the Sun being a perfect unblemished stationary body.
The invention of the telescope and the subsequent observation of sunspots which moved across the surface indicated the Sun was not a perfect unblemished stationary body and the Church's position unraveled as the science based on evidence took over.
Note the similarities between
@d taylor and the Church of the 17th century which initially denied the evidence basing their interpretation on an idea which was never found in the Bible.
-- Wow.
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