Who named the phases of the moon? such as new moon, full moon.?
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I believe the "ancients" that the above is refering to are the Greeks.  The Romans, more specifically Julius Cesar, instigated using the calander we use today, but borrowed the names of the moon phases from the Greeks when they conquered them.
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Probably not until 2025, in 19 years' time, because of the "Metonic cycle".\n\nThere are 235 lunar cycles in 19 calendar years, with an error of only 2 hours (see the website below).  Each year, the moon phases after 12 lunar cycles are 10 or 11 days out compared to the year before.  After 3 years and 37 lunar cycles, they are only 2 or 3 days out, but it never gets any closer until that magic 19 years when it is almost perfectly back in step.
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The moon has a side that always faces us! That's not always filled with light though. That's why we have phases of the moon.
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1999.\n\nYears in which February lacked a full moon are 1809, 1847, 1866, 1885, 1915, 1934, 1961, 1999, 2018, 2037, 2067, 2094...(etc.)
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Anaxagoras.\n\n\nPythagoras first reasoned that the Moon must be a sphere because the line between light and dark is curved.\n\nAnaxagoras used the Earth shadow during eclipse to confirm the Earth is a sphere.\n\nAnd Aristotle came to the same conclusion because he noted how the constellations "move" when you get farther from the equator.
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A great site with current phases and other info as well as a downloadable application for phases from 0 to 5000 AD:\nhttp://www.calculatorcat.com/moon_phases/moon_phases.phtml\n\nSoftware to calculate the phases for any time past or present:\nhttp://www.calculatorcat.com/moon_phases/\n\nMoon phases for the current quarter:\nhttp://www.nckas.org/moonphase.htm\n\nMoon phases for the current decade:\nhttp://www.hotspotfishing.com/learn/moon.asp
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"Blue Moon" is when two full moons happen in one calendar month. Since the phase period of the moon is 29.5 days, you usually only have one full moon month, but each month it is a little earlier than the previous month. About once a year or so, you get two full moons in the same calendar month, and the second one is called the "blue moon". There is no physical difference or appearance difference of the moon at this time, it just looks like a regular full moon: circular and white with gray patches.
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:) \nCrown moon occurred on Tuesday 3/14 The first full moon of march is called the crown Moon.\n\nNAMES OF FULL MOONS:\n\nJanuary .. Cold Moon, Moon after Yule\nFebruary .. Snow Moon, Wolf Moon\nMarch .. crown moon, Quickening Moon, Storm Moon, Sap Moon\nApril .. Wind Moon, Grass Moon\nMay .. Flower Moon, Planting Moon\nJune .. Strong Sun Moon\nJuly .. Blessing Moon, Honey moon\nAugust .. Corn Moon, Thunder Moon\nSeptember .. Harvest Moon, Grain Moon, Fruit Moon\nOctober .. Blood Moon, Hunter's Moon\nNovember .. Mourning Moon, Frosty Moon\nDecember .. Moon before Yule, Long Nights Moon\n\nThe second Full Moon of any month is called a Blue Moon.
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One of the biggest misconceptions about the Moon is that its phases are caused by the Earth's shadow. The Earth's shadow causes eclipses, but it has nothing to do with phases. Rather, the phases of the Moon are produced by the alignment of the Moon and the Sun in the sky. \nThe orientation of Sun and Moon determines the phase of the Moon. At new moon, the angular distance of the sun and moon is small, less than a few degrees. At first quarter, when the moon is half full, the Moon lies 90 degrees east of the Sun. As an example, if you were to point to the setting sun with one arm and to the moon with the other, the angle between your arms would be 90 degrees. At full, the moon is 180 degrees from the sun and at last quarter, it is 90 degrees west of the sun. \n \n\nThe new moon is essentially invisible because it is between the earth and sun and therefore lost in the glare of the sun. Even on day 2 or 3 it is tough to spot the moon because it is just the tiniest sliver and still very close to the sun. The waxing crescent moon grows till it is about half full in the phase we call first quarter. From there it grows to full moon and then begins to shrink back to third quarter, waning crescent and finally back to new moon. \n\nThe first and last quarter moons mark the halfway points between the new moon and full moon. The first quarter moon is illuminated on the right hand side. The last quarter moon is illuminated on the left hand side. It seems conflicting to call a half full moon first of last quarter, but the quarter refers to the position of the moon in the sky, not it's phase. A quarter moon is one quarter of a full circle (90 degrees) away from the sun. \n\nThe lighted part of the Moon always points the way to the Sun. This means that a waxing crescent moon in the western sky at sunset has the lighted part on the right which is the direction of the Sun. The sequence of the lunar phases always proceeds with the lighted part of the Moon growing from right to left until the moon reaches full. After full moon, the light recedes from right to left until new moon. \n\nThe line boundary between dark and light on the Moon is called the terminator. It is rarely an even line because the surface of the Moon is not smooth. The terminator is closest to a straight line at first and last quarter. Librations affect exactly what portion of the face of the Moon is facing the Earth, during first and last quarter phase, the terminator's exact location may vary. This is illustrated when the terminator does not line up with the Moon's meridian at first and last quarter. In other words, you'd think that during first and last quarter when the Moon is half full, that the meridian (the imaginary line which runs from north to south on the Moon,) would be right on the terminator, but it isn't so. In fact the terminator can be almost 8 degrees off to either side of the meridian.
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The moon is lunar. I think the Chinese have festivals reagrding that. Jews live by a lunar calandar and observe new year at fall. I'm sure there are other groups that do. You might find one who celebrate full monns and go from there. Celtic and others who revere nature.
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Yes.  The waning crescent precedes the new moon.  Next are the waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full, waning gibbous, and last quarter.
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HISTORICALLY, THE Native Americans who lived in the area that is now the northern and eastern United States kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to the recurring full Moons. Each full Moon name was applied to the entire month in which it occurred. These names, and some variations, were used by the Algonquin tribes from New England to Lake Superior. \n\nhttp://www.almanac.com/astronomy/moonnames.php
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8 named phases, but the phases of the moon are actually continuous, smothly transitioning from one to the next, the 8 phases that we name are just particular points in the phases.
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The Earth only natural satellite has other names, too: Luna, Selena, etc. Moon is also a generic name (moon), a synonim of "natural satellite".
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if you mean like a new moon (solar eclipse) <every new moon, and a full mooon (lunar eclipse) <every full moon:\n\nbecause the earth and moon are not on the same plane, and the moon is in a higher altitude than earth, and the moon only crosses sometimes into the earth's plane with the sun.
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the moon is always there, but it is probably a new moon, a phase of the moon where the sun doesn't shine light on it at the popsition that we can see it. The other stages include combinations of waning, waxing & gibbious and cresent
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Full moon\n\nThe Galileo spacecraft took this composite image on 7 December 1992 on its way to explore the Jupiter system in 1995-97. The color is 'enhanced' in the sense that the CCD camera is sensitive to near infrared wavelengths of light beyond human vision.The Full Moon is the lunar phase that occurs when the Moon lies on the opposite side of Earth from the Sun. The Moon as seen from the surface of Earth is fully illuminated by the Sun at this time, presenting a "full" round disk to viewers on Earth. As always, only half the total surface of the Moon is illuminated.\n\n\n1 Eclipses \n2 Numbers and formulae \n3 Folklore \n4 Calendars \n5 Full Moon names \n6 The Blue moon \n7 See also \n8 References \n \n\n\n\nEclipses\nA Full Moon is the only time when a lunar eclipse is possible; at that time the Moon may move through the shadow cast by Earth. However, because of the tilt or inclination of the Moon's orbit around Earth relative to Earth's orbit around the Sun, the Moon usually passes to the north or south of Earth's shadow at Full Moon, so a lunar eclipse does not occur at every Full Moon.\n\nFull Moons are generally a poor time to conduct astronomical observations, since the bright reflected sunlight from the Moon overwhelms the dimmer light from stars.\n\n\nNumbers and formulae\nAlthough on average it takes only 27.322 days (sidereal month) for the Moon to complete one orbit around Earth, it requires about two more days than that to again catch up with the Sun. On average, the number of days between Full Moons is about 29.5306 days. The actual number of days may differ from the average number by more than a half day. From one Full Moon to the next, the number of days in one lunation can vary between 29.272 and 29.833 days.\n\nThe age and apparent size of the Full Moon vary in a cycle of just under 14 synodic months, which is called the Full moon cycle.\n\nThe combined date and time of Full Moon number N, using a fictitious moon that moves at a strictly mean rate is approximately:\n\nD = 20.362954 + 29.5305888531 × N + 102.19 × 10-12 × N 2 \nD is the number of days (and fractions) since 1 January 2000 00:00:00 UTC, \nN is the count of full moons starting with zero as the first (not 1 as you would have expected) as the first Moon in the year 2000. \nThe true Full Moon may differ from this by up to about 14.5 hours, due to the normal irregularity in the Moon's Keplerian orbit, and due to the periodic perturbations on that Keplerian orbit by the Sun, the equatorial bulge of Earth, and nearby planets.\n\nSee the New Moon page for a detailed explanation of the formula.\n\n\nFolklore\nFull Moons are traditionally associated with temporal insomnia, insanity (hence the terms lunacy and lunatic) and various magical phenomena such as lycanthropy.\n\nPsychologists have found that there is no strong evidence for effects on behaviour around Full Moon [1]. They find that studies are not consistent, with some showing a positive effect, while others will show a negative effect. In one instance, the December 23, 2000 issue of the British Medical Journal published two studies on dog bite admission to hospitals in England and Australia. The study of the Bradford Royal Infirmary found that dog bites were twice as common at Full Moon, while the study of public hospitals in Australia found they were less likely at Full Moon. Psychologists point out that there is a difference between correlation and causation. The mere fact that two events happen at the same time doesn't mean that there is a cause and effect relationship between the two.\n\nNeopagans hold a monthly ritual called an Esbat at each Full Moon.\n\nMany people practicing traditional Chinese religions prepare their ritual offerings to their ancestors and deities on every Full Moon and New Moon.\n\n\nCalendars\nThe Islamic calendar and the traditional Chinese calendar are both based on the phases of the Moon. Neither calendar, however, begins i