Talk:Alexandrite/@comment-24253146-20150825125415/@comment-28584561-20150825140247

It's just as you've said; moonlight is just reflected sunlight the difference between the two is the intesity (and there isn't that much yellow/orange/red in moonlight, that's why everything looks dark purple/blue at night). The yellows/red/oranges in light will give alexandrite it's red color, and moonlight hardly has any of those.