My+Moon

MOON QUIZ 1

MOON QUIZ 2



Q://What is the correct direction of the moons orbit?// A: The moon travels west to east, the rotation of the earth makes it appear it is travelling east to west. >> During the next week, we keep seeing more and more of the illuminated part of the Moon, and it is now called waxing gibbous. >> Two weeks after the new moon, the moon is now halfway through its revolution, and now the illuminated half coincides with the one facing the Earth, so that we can see a full disk: we have a full moon. As mentioned above, at this time the Moon rises at the time the Sun sets, and it sets when the Sun rises. If the Moon happens to align exactly with the Earth and Sun, then we get a lunar eclipse.From now on, until it becomes new again, the illuminated part of the Moon that we can see decreases, and we say it's waning. The first week after full, it is called waning gibbous.Finally, during the fourth week, the Moon is reduced to a thin sliver from us, sometimes called waning crescent. >> First it goes from new moon to waxing crescent, to waxing half. Then to waxing gibbous, to full moon, to waning gibbous. Finally it goes to waning half, to waning crescent, then back to new moon. And it usually takes 3 to 4 days in between each phase. >> So basicly during different times in the month the moon is in different places and is getting shined on in different places from the sun, and they call these phases as it changes during the month.
 * //From Waxing Crescent to First Quarter?//3 days
 * //First Quarter to Waxing Gibbous//?3 days
 * //Waxing Gibbous to Full Moon//?4 days
 * //Full Moon to Waning Gibbous//?4 days
 * //Waning Gibbous to Third Quarter//?4 days
 * //Third Quarter to Waning Crescent//?4 days
 * //Waning Crescent to New Moon//?3 days
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 * This is my essay on the moon and how it works. Unless it moves behind the Earth, half of the moon (that faces the Sun) is always lit by the Sun.from the side, you see part of the lit side, and part of the dark side. How much of each depends on exactly where you are, and where the Sun, Moon, and Earth are.
 * When the Moon is roughly in the same direction as the Sun, its illuminated half is facing away from the Earth, and therefore the part that faces us is all dark: we have the new moon. When in this phase, the Moon and the Sun rise and set at about the same time. As the Moon moves around the Earth, we get to see more and more of the illuminated half, and we say the Moon is waxing. At first we get a sliver of it, which grows as days go by. This phase is called the crescent moon.