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The shadows of the Moon Mountains are completely black; their contrast to bright mountainous terrain is often so great that the eye of the observer working with the Micrometer is greatly strained using powerful telescopes, that one may believe that similar extremes do not exist on Earth.
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Schmidt, J.F.J. (2020). About the Mountain Shadows in Particular. In: The Moon. Historical & Cultural Astronomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37269-9_9
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