light on Day 1 & the sun, moon & stars on Day 4; how was there evening & morning without a sunrise or sunset for those first 3 days?
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There just wasn't.  God is God, he doesn't have to operate on human understanding.  Remember, He was there before even the world was created.
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The Earth turns one time around in 24 hours and as it does the whole sky seems to turn around the North star. Of course the sky is really not moving at all. The Earth under our feet is turning, but it really does LOOK like the sky is turning! The North star never rises or sets because it is right above Earth's north pole, so as the Earth turns it just stays there in one spot while the whole sky seems to turn around it. Stars close enough to the north star can go around without ever rising or setting. So the sky looks like a big clock, but a 24 hour clock. You may have seen special military clocks that have 24 numbered hours and the hour hand goes once around in a day. It is kind of silly anyway having 12 hours on the clock and making the hour hand go around twice a day. Who made that up?\n\nAnyway, you can use the stars in the sky as your dial and the north star as the center of that dial. Only the dial turns and the hands stay still. Oops, we have no hands! We will just imagine a hand always pointing up and let the dial turn behind it. And there are not really numbers, you have to draw a picture of the stars and write numbers on it so you can compare the sky to it and tell time.\n\nClick the link below for instructions.
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"The moon does not circle the Earth once a day. The Earth circles the sun once a day. The Moon orbits the Earth about twice every 24 hours. That's why we have tides (high and low)."\n\nSAY WHAT?  Not even close.  There are junior high science teachers weeping over this "answer".\n\nThe earth rotates once a day on its axis.  That is the definition of a day - the time it takes for a planetary body to rotate once on its axis. \nThe earth circles the sun once a year - actually 365.24 days (which is why we have leap years).  That is the definition of a year - the time it takes for a planet to orbit the sun.  As you can tell, planetary years are longer or shorter depending on the distance from the sun.\nOur earth's axis is tilted.  The northern hemisphere is closer to the sun in the summer and farther in the winter.  This is how we get seasons.\n\nThe moon orbits the earth once every twenty-eight days, give or take an afternoon. The phases of the moon are caused by it being in a slightly different position everyday relative to the sun.  \nThe moon does cause tides - its gravitational pull causes the oceans to bulge out towards the moon.  However, there is a matching bulge directly opposite the moon.  THAT is why we have two high tides and two low tides a day.  In addition, the sun exerts a lesser pull, which interacts with the moons pull.\n\nSorry about that - had to correct the flagrant misinformation there.\n\nAs for your question - it is a weird effect, isn't it?  Especially when the moon is closer to a new moon.\n\nWhat happens is that our atmosphere scatters the light from the sun so that our sky is quite bright.(Why is the sky blue? has been discussed here many times).  However, the moon is reflecting enough light so that it is brighter than the surrounding sky and we see it.\n\nWhen the moon is less than full, there is very little light reflected off of the dark side of the moon (what light is reflected is earthshine!)  This light is not bright enough to outshine the sky.\n\nThink of a white sheet (in a dark room) that images are being projected onto.  The sheet will look opaque until someone shines a light onto it from the back that is brighter than the image projected from the front.  That is the basic effect that we are getting - the atmosphere is a sheet, with the sun and the moon both shining on to it.
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The sun does not orbit the Earth (LOL).  The reason we have night and day is because it takes the Earth about 24 hours to rotate (spin).  Each time a side is facing the Sun, it is day, and when it is turned away it is in night.
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yes it was\nGod creates light and separates light from darkness, and day from night, on the first day. Yet he didn't make the light producing objects (the sun and the stars) until the fourth day (1:14-19). 1:3-5 \n\nKnowing this here is a question for you if befor got created light there was noting but darkness what does he come from?
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it is strongest between 10am and 2pm.  this is because as the sun rises from the horision the light (and other radiations) are being filtered through more atmosphere. as the sun climbs higher it is comming more directly at you, peeking at noon(ish). Finally as the sun sets it reverses the process and again becomes filtered through more atmosphere.
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The person whose local time is noon, but the sun is only closer by one earth radius -- 6400 km.  Compared with the distance to the sun -- 150,000,000 km -- this is a very tiny bit closer.\n\nThe sun appears larger to the person viewing it at sunrise and sunset because of atmospheric refraction.  You are looking through much more atmosphere when you view the sun near the horizon, and all that additional air acts as a lens to magnify the sun's image.  If we had no atmosphere, the sun would appear the same size at all times (assuming anyone would still be here to see it).
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the sun and or the moon
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The Earth is tilted by 23 1/2 degrees. During the Summer months, the north is pointed toward the Sun allowing more direct sunlight. During the winter, we are tilted away from the sun so the sunlight is more indirect as the sun seems lower in the sky. There are 4 cardinal points in our calender; Summer solstice, autumnal equinox, winter solstice and vernal equinox. Beginning of summer, fall, winter and spring. This coincides with the position of earth as it goes around the sun. Each of the cardinal days can take place over a three day period, 20th, 21st, 22nd. On June 20th, summer solstice, it is the longest day of the year. It is also the day that the north pole is pointing directly at the sun. The next day it will have passed this point and start pointing away from the sun, hence, the days will also start getting shorter. For further info, feel free to email me, orion_1812@yahoo.com
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The reason you can see the moon in the sky during the day is because at that time the moon has rotated to where it is inbetween the earth and the sun.  So they are both visable at the same time.  It takes 28 for the moon to circle the earth, this is also the cause of moon phases, such as full moon/ new moon ect.
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On average the sun moves about 1 degree against the background stars per day (that's about 2 full moons!).  Since the Earth is on an elliptical orbit, we actually speed up and slow down, so it changes from day to day the exact amount.  \n\nIf you mean how many degrees above or along your local horizon, you need to give me your latitude and longitude to answer that.
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As all the others said, the sun is a star, and you see it every day. Sometimes, in early morning or in late afternoon, some of the most prominent start may be visible, mostly on the horizon.\n\nAll the stars which you can see by night is still there during the day, but the sun's light is so bright that we cannot see past its brightness to where the stars are.\n\nI once heard in an astronomy class that it is able to see a star in the day, but the light of the star has to fall directly in the mid-center of your eye, and that takes some doing.\n\nLastly, there are certain occasions where stars are visible during the day. I remember when I was in primary school, the Planet Venus (although not a star) was visible next to the moon right in the middle of the day. If Venus can be visible at that time, then why not any other star?\n\nHope I could help you...
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It's always daytime in space. Unless you are stuck behind a planet or a moon or something else, then it's dark as hell... The spining of the Earth creates day and night.
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Actually, at our close range to the sun, it would be so bright that everything would be completely washed out. It would be blinding to even be outside. It is true that the photosphere will be cooler, but the sun will be so much larger that the total light we receive will be much, much more. As for sunset and sunrise, if I had to guess I'd say that they would take longer and it would stay bright for a long time after the sun goes down (and get brighter a long time before the sun comes up). This is all assuming that it hasn't swallowed the Earth yet, which it will do at some point.
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There are 2 astronomical cycles involved here.\n\nThere's a 19 year cycle, where moon, sun-earth are in same relative positions all year long.\nThere exists an eclipse cycle here but not like the saros cycle, below.\n\nThe other is the "saros" cycle, (the eclipse cycle), which is 18 years, 11 days 12 hours, 3 and 1/3 seconds.\n\nThese are astronomical absolutes--you can depend on them.\n\nI can't decipher your dates above, but after 62 years as an amateur astronomer, I can assure you that my figures above are correct...\n\nI appreciate your interest in these cycles--you are one in about 10,000, (maybe in 100,000) that can even pose such a question.
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All Of You Are Idiots... How Do We Know that one Day=24 Hours??? Did They Wear Watches? Was One Year 365 Days?? Did They Have Calendars? For All We Know One Day In The Begining COuld Be Equal To 7 Days In What We Know ....Geesh Some People
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The moon's light is actually just a reflection.  The surface of the moon reflects the suns light.  That is why you can have half moons, quarter moons, etc.  The moon itself doesn't produce any light.