I've seen a few arguments pertaining to the Moon on here and YT, so I thought I'd see where your heads are at...

Obviously, if you believe the Sun and Moon are at the same altitude, and the Sun can apparently only point down, then the light from the Moon must not be coming from the Sun. So, either the Moon gives off it's own light, which seems to be the position of most FEarthers, or something else is lighting up the Moon, which we couldn't/haven't detected.

There also appears to be this idea that the Moon gives off some sort of "cool light" bullshit, but I've only seen that confirmed with some terrible testing methods...

Anywho, the real question is, how do you explain shadows on the Moon if it's giving off it's own light?
My question focuses, primarily, on the craters, and such, on the Moon, not other objects casting a shadow on the Moon, fyi.

This is a picture I took with my own telescope:



_{Sorry, I don't have an ideal setup for photographing through the telescope...}