Full moon half moon?
i dont understand the full moon half moon thing when its a half moon is there something in its way if its all clear shouldent it be a full moon all the time
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Half of the moon is always lit up by the sun and half of it is dark, but the amount of the lit half we can see varies. When the moon is between Earth and the sun, the lit half of the moon faces directly away from Earth and it's a new moon. When Earth is between the moon and the sun, the lit half of the moon is facing earth and it's a full moon. The moon's orbit is slightly tilted so the Earth doesn't usually come directly between the moon and the sun. Sometimes it does, and then we have a lunar eclipse.
total eclipse (sorry jaffa cake ad)
full moon, high tide
Hi. The Moon IS always full but only half of it is lit by sunlight during half Moon..
I have been having a bit of a disscusion with my step dad today about the moon its hard thing to get answers about... but i think i know that we only get to see one side of the moon.. its a full one tonight and its bright whats it all about? great question..
Moon is always full, but the earth spins, it depends on how and when we view the moon full or half. That is what it is.
Can't believe you've asked this. Did you go to school? I'm feeling slightly queasy .
Someone help me out here . please?
we only see the part of the moon that the sun's light is shining on. the 'dark side of the moon' isnt really dark, we just can't see it. actually its completely lit during a new moon.
It's the shadow of the earth getting in the way, blocking out the light of the sun (it's the reflected light of the sun which makes the moon visible). The relative orbit of earth round sun, moon round earth etc, changes during the month. I know that's not a very scientific answer but it's what I seem to remember my dad telling me! What always blew my mind was how the moon controls the tides, now that's something I find wierd.
The moon has day and night just like we do.
Our view of the Moon isn't obscured. As the moon moves around its orbit we get different views of day and night on the moon.
When we see day on the moon - it is a full moon.
If we have a view of night time on the moon - we see only darkness and cannot see the moon - this is a new moon.
Half moons are when we see half day and half night on the moon.
All the other moon shapes are created in the same way.
There's no such thing as a "half moon". If the moon looks half lit up, it's called a QUARTER MOON
The Phases of the moon are not caused by shadows or anything blocking the light of the sun. The light that comes from the moon is just sunlight that has been reflected off the moons surface. The moon is always oriented so the side we see during a full moon is facing the sun. When the earth is between the sun and the moon we see a full moon. When the moon is between earth and the sun we see a new moon because the side reflecting light is facing away from us. When you see any other phase of the moon it is somewhere off of the imaginary line between the earth and the sun.
If you are still having trouble grasping this, imagine the moon was flat like a piece of paper. Number the sides 1 and 2. If side 1 always faced the sun then a full moon is when you can see all of side 1. A new moon is when you can see all of side 2. and a half moon would be like looking at the paper on edge. If you use an actual piece of paper and keep side one facing a stationary point while you move it around your head you will see different phases similar to what happens when the moon orbits the earth.
No. The full moon means it's where the most light reflects off the sun. But it can never be truly full (100 gibbous, what I call 90 gibbous), because then it would be a lunar eclipse and it would be 0 crescent.
No, nothing at all is blocking part of the moon. Imagine you're facing a bright spotlight about 50 feet in front of you. Your head is Earth. You left hand is straight out to you side, palm facing up. There is a tennis ball sitting on it. Look at it. Notice that, of the 1/2 of the ball that you see, 1/2 of it is lit by the spotlight and the other half is dark. That's a half-moon. Now bring your left hand forward 45 degrees (halfway between straight out to the side and straight in front). That's a quarter-moon. Now put your left hand back where it was, straight out to your side, and rotate your whole body 90 degrees to the left. Now the spotlight is straight out to your right. Look at the ball. Oops, it's shaded by your head! Since we don't want to simulate a lunar eclipse, lift it up a little higher than your head. Now, of the 1/2 of the ball's surface that you see, the whole thing is lit up by the spotlight - that's a full moon, when Earth is between the moon and the sun. And of course, if you rotated around so that the ball was between you and the sun, you would only see "the dark side" of the ball - that's a new moon. And if the ball is such that it's shadow falls on your face, that's a solar eclipse.
Now, if you want to REALLY see ALL the motions accurately, start by facing the light, but DON"T GO INTO IT! (Hehe!). Very slowly, so slowly that it takes you 24 hours,rotate your whole body toward the right one full turn. You can move your eyes, but not your neck, otherwise you mess up "the horizon". After 24 hours, you're facing the sun (light) again, just like whatever location you happen to be at on Earth. Now add the moon's motion into the mix by, even much more slowly, smoothly move your arm with the ball all the way behind you, smoothly pass it into your right hand, and just as smoothly continue moving it the same way around until it's in front of you again, ready to pass back to your left hand. For this to be accurate, each one of those ball rotations should take about 28 days. And if at the same time you are rotating you body one full turn each 24 hours, you are very accurately simulating the relative motions of the sun, the moon, and Earth, even to the point of accounting for the moon's retrograde orbit (look it up).
The stars? Yes, they seem to rotate around us like the sun, once every 24 hours (well, actually you know that it's the Earth's rotation about it's axis that makes the sun and stars look like they're rotating around us, but you already figured that out while doing this little simulation, right?). But the stars are different - at, say midnight, there are different stars out in the summer than in the winter. Wazzup w/that?
Ok, hmm, now let's expand our simulation a bit. The spotlight is now a ball of light, shining equally in all directions. It is in the middle of a giant room built like a dome, and the dome is a mile in diameter. You're still only 50 feet from the light, so you're virtually in the middle of this big room. The dome has billions of little lights spread out everywhere, but most of them are so small and dim that you can only see the brightest few thousand. Now there's just one more motion to add - you need to walk around the light at a rate of one full circle per year, keeping it 50 feet away as you do so. If you do that, at the same time you are rotating your body one revolution per day and rotating the moon in your hand once around your body every 28 days, not only have you fairly precisely simulated the relative motions of the sun, moon, Earth, and stars, you've also proved that you truly, desparately, need to get a life, much like myself, tho at least I typed all this out while at work and not on my own time, eh?
Starting with the full moon - A day or two before the "full moon" you will see the
moon rise just before sunset. At full moon it will rise as the sun sets, and of course
after the sun sets as the time goes on. Each night after, notice how the light on the
moon shrinks from full to last quarter and then to nothing (a 2 week time period).
Also during this time you will notice the moon "traveling" closer to the sun.
Two weeks from full moon (day may vary) look for the sliver of the moon just before sunset.
As the moon moves into NEW moon and you cannot see at all, watch for it to become noticable
as a sliver in the other direction as the sun sets. Follow the light on the moon as
it expands to first quarter and then to full. So you can actually see the moon and the sun
at the same time virtually most of the month.
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Half of the moon is always lit up by the sun and half of it is dark, but the amount of the lit half we can see varies. When the moon is between Earth and the sun, the lit half of the moon faces directly away from Earth and it's a new moon. When Earth is between the moon and the sun, the lit half of the moon is facing earth and it's a full moon. The moon's orbit is slightly tilted so the Earth doesn't usually come directly between the moon and the sun. Sometimes it does, and then we have a lunar eclipse.
total eclipse (sorry jaffa cake ad)
full moon, high tide
Hi. The Moon IS always full but only half of it is lit by sunlight during half Moon..
I have been having a bit of a disscusion with my step dad today about the moon its hard thing to get answers about... but i think i know that we only get to see one side of the moon.. its a full one tonight and its bright whats it all about? great question..
Moon is always full, but the earth spins, it depends on how and when we view the moon full or half. That is what it is.
Can't believe you've asked this. Did you go to school? I'm feeling slightly queasy .
Someone help me out here . please?
we only see the part of the moon that the sun's light is shining on. the 'dark side of the moon' isnt really dark, we just can't see it. actually its completely lit during a new moon.
It's the shadow of the earth getting in the way, blocking out the light of the sun (it's the reflected light of the sun which makes the moon visible). The relative orbit of earth round sun, moon round earth etc, changes during the month. I know that's not a very scientific answer but it's what I seem to remember my dad telling me! What always blew my mind was how the moon controls the tides, now that's something I find wierd.
The moon has day and night just like we do.
Our view of the Moon isn't obscured. As the moon moves around its orbit we get different views of day and night on the moon.
When we see day on the moon - it is a full moon.
If we have a view of night time on the moon - we see only darkness and cannot see the moon - this is a new moon.
Half moons are when we see half day and half night on the moon.
All the other moon shapes are created in the same way.
There's no such thing as a "half moon". If the moon looks half lit up, it's called a QUARTER MOON
The Phases of the moon are not caused by shadows or anything blocking the light of the sun. The light that comes from the moon is just sunlight that has been reflected off the moons surface. The moon is always oriented so the side we see during a full moon is facing the sun. When the earth is between the sun and the moon we see a full moon. When the moon is between earth and the sun we see a new moon because the side reflecting light is facing away from us. When you see any other phase of the moon it is somewhere off of the imaginary line between the earth and the sun.
If you are still having trouble grasping this, imagine the moon was flat like a piece of paper. Number the sides 1 and 2. If side 1 always faced the sun then a full moon is when you can see all of side 1. A new moon is when you can see all of side 2. and a half moon would be like looking at the paper on edge. If you use an actual piece of paper and keep side one facing a stationary point while you move it around your head you will see different phases similar to what happens when the moon orbits the earth.
No. The full moon means it's where the most light reflects off the sun. But it can never be truly full (100 gibbous, what I call 90 gibbous), because then it would be a lunar eclipse and it would be 0 crescent.
No, nothing at all is blocking part of the moon. Imagine you're facing a bright spotlight about 50 feet in front of you. Your head is Earth. You left hand is straight out to you side, palm facing up. There is a tennis ball sitting on it. Look at it. Notice that, of the 1/2 of the ball that you see, 1/2 of it is lit by the spotlight and the other half is dark. That's a half-moon. Now bring your left hand forward 45 degrees (halfway between straight out to the side and straight in front). That's a quarter-moon. Now put your left hand back where it was, straight out to your side, and rotate your whole body 90 degrees to the left. Now the spotlight is straight out to your right. Look at the ball. Oops, it's shaded by your head! Since we don't want to simulate a lunar eclipse, lift it up a little higher than your head. Now, of the 1/2 of the ball's surface that you see, the whole thing is lit up by the spotlight - that's a full moon, when Earth is between the moon and the sun. And of course, if you rotated around so that the ball was between you and the sun, you would only see "the dark side" of the ball - that's a new moon. And if the ball is such that it's shadow falls on your face, that's a solar eclipse.
Now, if you want to REALLY see ALL the motions accurately, start by facing the light, but DON"T GO INTO IT! (Hehe!). Very slowly, so slowly that it takes you 24 hours,rotate your whole body toward the right one full turn. You can move your eyes, but not your neck, otherwise you mess up "the horizon". After 24 hours, you're facing the sun (light) again, just like whatever location you happen to be at on Earth. Now add the moon's motion into the mix by, even much more slowly, smoothly move your arm with the ball all the way behind you, smoothly pass it into your right hand, and just as smoothly continue moving it the same way around until it's in front of you again, ready to pass back to your left hand. For this to be accurate, each one of those ball rotations should take about 28 days. And if at the same time you are rotating you body one full turn each 24 hours, you are very accurately simulating the relative motions of the sun, the moon, and Earth, even to the point of accounting for the moon's retrograde orbit (look it up).
The stars? Yes, they seem to rotate around us like the sun, once every 24 hours (well, actually you know that it's the Earth's rotation about it's axis that makes the sun and stars look like they're rotating around us, but you already figured that out while doing this little simulation, right?). But the stars are different - at, say midnight, there are different stars out in the summer than in the winter. Wazzup w/that?
Ok, hmm, now let's expand our simulation a bit. The spotlight is now a ball of light, shining equally in all directions. It is in the middle of a giant room built like a dome, and the dome is a mile in diameter. You're still only 50 feet from the light, so you're virtually in the middle of this big room. The dome has billions of little lights spread out everywhere, but most of them are so small and dim that you can only see the brightest few thousand. Now there's just one more motion to add - you need to walk around the light at a rate of one full circle per year, keeping it 50 feet away as you do so. If you do that, at the same time you are rotating your body one revolution per day and rotating the moon in your hand once around your body every 28 days, not only have you fairly precisely simulated the relative motions of the sun, moon, Earth, and stars, you've also proved that you truly, desparately, need to get a life, much like myself, tho at least I typed all this out while at work and not on my own time, eh?
Starting with the full moon - A day or two before the "full moon" you will see the
moon rise just before sunset. At full moon it will rise as the sun sets, and of course
after the sun sets as the time goes on. Each night after, notice how the light on the
moon shrinks from full to last quarter and then to nothing (a 2 week time period).
Also during this time you will notice the moon "traveling" closer to the sun.
Two weeks from full moon (day may vary) look for the sliver of the moon just before sunset.
As the moon moves into NEW moon and you cannot see at all, watch for it to become noticable
as a sliver in the other direction as the sun sets. Follow the light on the moon as
it expands to first quarter and then to full. So you can actually see the moon and the sun
at the same time virtually most of the month.
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