View a sampling of the moon's phases from the past month.
After new moon our satellite slowly begins to appear as a thin crescent visible just an hour or two before sunset. With each passing day the moon runs about 50 minutes behind, setting later and later as more of its disk becomes illuminated. After two weeks the moon is opposite the sun from our perspective, the portion facing us is fully illuminated, rises at sunset passes through the entire night sky waiting until sunrise to set. For the next two weeks it will progress to a thin crescent, this time on the trailing edge of the moon, eventually rising only an hour or so before sunrise. Its phase is always telling you where the sun is, and the orientation of the shadow to our horizon can in some ways be thought of as a clock
24 июл 2022
