gunga, you reign supreme in so many ways... honestly, I could not count them all. But what you and all the other poet-warrior flashaholics are in fact after is certainly not a "moonlight" mode, but instead a firefly mode. Moonlight, by the numbers, the actual light intensity that comes from a full moon, is anywhere between 1 and 8 lumens per square meter. Last night's Strawberry moon was at least 8 lumens, if not 10. Abandon the poetry! Be linguistically and scientifically accurate instead! You want sublumens? Its a firefly mode, folks, not a moonlight mode. Thanks for putting up with my repetitive pedantry.
Pedantic -- adj. Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules: a pedantic attention to details.
American Heritage Dictionary
I like Wendee's term best of all: "Sublumen"
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