what time of the day is the moon directly overhead?
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it depends on were u head its at although if ur muslim the moon its always over u since it is ur god
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All this information is from the website listed below.\n\n Thursday \n        20 April 2006         Pacific Daylight Time          \n\n                         SUN\n        Begin civil twilight       5:51 a.m.                 \n        Sunrise                    6:17 a.m.                 \n        Sun transit               12:55 p.m.                 \n        Sunset                     7:33 p.m.                 \n        End civil twilight         8:00 p.m.                 \n\n                         MOON\n        Moonset                   10:27 a.m. on preceding day\n        Moonrise                   1:59 a.m.                 \n        Moon transit               6:45 a.m.                 \n        Moonset                   11:35 a.m.                 \n        Moonrise                   2:44 a.m. on following day
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8 PM tomorrow.  http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ will help you with such things.
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October 09, 2006\nit depends where you live when the moon will rise
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The sun will be directly overhead at 12 noon.  The horizontal path the sun follows traced by its position at sunrise on different days along the horizon, well it'll be in the middle (kinda hard to see this one unless you're tracking the sun somehow, like in the movie Cast Away).  The amount of sunlight will be exactly 12 hours on the equator and will be a function of latitude for anywhere else (such as 12*cos(latitude) for anywhere else in the world).  Other than that, I can't think of anything.  Nothing grandiose happens...
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The Moon rotates on it's axis and revolves around the Earth in 27 1/3 days. The time from one full moon to the next is 29 1/2 days. The reason they are not the same is that during the 27 1/3 days that it take the Moon to go around the Earth, the Earth has moved relative to the Sun, and it takes another 2 days or so before the Moon is directly on the other side of the Sun (which is what gives a full moon). It is similar to the reason why the Earth rotates on its axis once every 23 hours 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds, but its 24 hours from noon to noon.
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Yes - the moon is far away, and the earth spins around it's own axis, creating day and night time. The moon would move a little 1/56 of phase shift during the half day it would take for the other half of earth to see the moon, but it's not noticeable.
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The moon is only visible because the Sun light reflects off of it. Even if the Sun is in the sky at the  same time, we will see it. The Moon circles the Earth every 28 days. While the Earth rotates once every 24 hours. The result is that the Moon seems to change position in the sky by 1/28 of a full rotation every day. During that cycle, the Sun and Moon will be in the daytime sky at least half the time. Sometimes we don't notice the Moon because it is only a small wedge or the clouds hide it. \nBy the way, Venus is also visible during daylight hours during some of it's rotation,  but it is a very tiny  pinpoint of light and is very hard to locate even if it is bright.
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Venus (called the Morning Star as it is visible in twilight) should be pretty bright in the eastern sky. \n\nI'm ignoring the moon or sun as you will immediately recognise them (hopefully). the moon appears at different positions at different times of the month.
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moon moves in clockwise direction
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It always rises and sets 55 minutes later than the earlier day.\nFor example; if today the moon rise is at 8:00 p.m. then tomorrow it will be at 8:55 p.m. Same way for the setting of the moon.
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in\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
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On new moon day, the moon and sun are in the same direction from earth.\n\nThe non illuminated portion of the moon is turned toward us. In the bright background of light we are not able to see the moon.\n\nSince the earth rotates about its axis, this new moon is for all in the world.  \nThe sun and moon rises in the east and sets in the west almost with no time difference.\nTherefore the moon is in the sky during day time, even though we are not able to see it.\n\nIn each day, the moon separates from the sun approximately by 12 degree.\n\nAfter one or two days latter, the moon is separated from the sun towards east. Therefore, we see the moon (crescent moon) after sun set for few hours in the west or in the   evening. All persons in the world will view the crescent moon when it is evening for them.\n\nApproximately after seven days, the moon separates from the sun through 90 degree. \n When the sun comes to the zenith, the moon rises in the east. The moon appears as a half moon in the east. For the viewers it is a day time. We see the half moon from the afternoon of this day till mid night in the sky. At mid night it sets in the West. \n When the sun sets in the west the moon is seen in the zenith. All people in the world will see the half moon from mid day to mid night.\n\n\nAfter approximately fifteen days, the moon is separated from the sun through 180 degree. When the sun sets in the west moon rises in the west. We call this as full moon. Through out the night the full moon will be visible and during day time it will not be visible. This is the same for all people in the world. \n\nOne can complete this cycle from Full moon to new moon (in another 15 days).
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STP rocks. I'm going to have to go with, the dark side of the moon has an earth but you can't really see it and the day after tomorrow is like either Thursday or Fridayish?
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The moon has a 28-day orbit around the earth so naturally there is a part of that cycle when it will be on the same side of the earth as the sun. Note though that you cannot have a full moon in the sky during the day since a full moon means that the earth, sun and moon all line up. You can have a new moon in the sky during the day since the moon is then between us and the sun and all we see is the dark side.
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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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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.