is a first quarter moon considered to be waxing or waning?
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waxing...here's why:\n\nif the moon is in it's first quarter, that means the first quarter of the cycle which begins on the new moon. waxing means getting bigger, waning means getting smaller. in the first quarter, it is moving toward full moon, therefore it is waxing.
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New Moon - The Moon's unilluminated side is facing the Earth. The Moon is not visible (except during a solar eclipse).\nWaxing Crescent - The Moon appears to be partly but less than one-half illuminated by direct sunlight. The fraction of the Moon's disk that is illuminated is increasing.\nFirst Quarter - One-half of the Moon appears to be illuminated by direct sunlight. The fraction of the Moon's disk that is illuminated is increasing.\nWaxing Gibbous - The Moon appears to be more than one-half but not fully illuminated by direct sunlight. The fraction of the Moon's disk that is illuminated is increasing.\nFull Moon - The Moon's illuminated side is facing the Earth. The Moon appears to be completely illuminated by direct sunlight.\nWaning Gibbous - The Moon appears to be more than one-half but not fully illuminated by direct sunlight. The fraction of the Moon's disk that is illuminated is decreasing.\nLast Quarter - One-half of the Moon appears to be illuminated by direct sunlight. The fraction of the Moon's disk that is illuminated is decreasing.\nWaning Crescent - The Moon appears to be partly but less than one-half illuminated by direct sunlight. The fraction of the Moon's disk that is illuminated is decreasing.\nalso go to \nhttp://tm.ask.com/r?t=an&s=a&uid=09220EDD36C718A34&sid=144454D585BB38B34&o=0&qid=0F1134A30408E249734C01A371E2BB7D&io=0&sv=0a300524&ask=moon+phases&uip=480e4587&en=te&eo=1&pt=Moon%20Phases&ac=6&qs=1&pg=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Faa.usno.navy.mil%2Ffaq%2Fdocs%2Fmoon_phases.html
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The phases of the moon are caused by the relative positions of the earth, sun, and moon. The moon goes around the earth, on average, in 27 days 7 hours 43 minutes. \n\nThe sun always illuminates the half of the moon facing the sun (except during lunar eclipses, when the moon passes thru the earth's shadow). When the sun and moon are on opposite sides of the earth, the moon appears "full" to us, a bright, round disk. When the moon is between the earth and the sun, it appears dark, a "new" moon. In between, the moon's illuminated surface appears to grow (wax) to full, then decreases (wanes) to the next new moon. \n\nThe edge of the shadow (the terminator) is always curved, being an oblique view of a circle, giving the moon its familiar crescent shape. Because the "horns" of the moon at the ends of the crescent are always facing away from the setting or rising sun, they always point upward in the sky. It is fun to watch for paintings and pictures which show an "impossible moon" with the horns pointed downwards.
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Relative to the sun, the moon sometimes moves faster and sometimes slower and sometimes the same speed depending on where it is in orbit around the earth.\n\nWhen it is moving from new moon to full it is moving opposite the direction the earth moves around the sun and so it is moving slower than the earth around the sun.  At first quarter moon it is moving the slowest relative to the sun.\n\nWhen it is moving from full moon to new moon it is moving with the direction the earth moves around the sun and so it is moving faster than the earth around the sun.  At last quarter moon it is moving the fastest relative to the sun.\n\nFull moon and new moon move at the same speed as the earth relative to the sun.\n\nSo in essence the moon is speeding up and then slowing down if observed relative to the sun.  Of course relative to the earth the moon moves right along with us and only varies in it's orbital speed around the earth based on Kepler's 3rd law.\n\nI hope this helps!
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Its still a little bit dark and the light from earth when reflected back to the moon enables u 2 see the dark side of the moon but this will only happen when there is not enough light to block your view.
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"Half Moon" simply refers to that moment in the lunar cycle haflway between the New Moon and the Full Moon.  It doens't necessarily refer to the way it looks like.
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LAST QUARTER ON THE 27TH A FULL MOON.
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Earth shine is the correct answer. When the Moon is crescent as seen from Earth, the Earth is nearly full as seen from the Moon. And Earth is bigger and has much higher reflectivity than the Moon, so a nearly full Earth gives much more light than a nearly full Moon does.
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no it is a reflection of the suns light.  That is why you can still see the moon during the day soemtimes.  It is still getting light from the sun.
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new moon, not fullmoon.
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It has to be. A full moon is when the earth is between the sun & moon. Just like a solar eclipce , the moon must be between the earth and sun. That is the definition of what a new moon is. I hope you won your bet.
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I'm not sure about waning but I think waxing comes from wax :-O. But seriously if you take an object and dip it in wax repeatedly it get bigger over time
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They refer to different phases of the moon.  The "waxing and waning"  moon.  Try this link:\n\nhttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/moon/Phases.shtml
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A QUARTER of an hour ago\nI saw the most heavenly show\nThe night was FULL and all aglow\nThe WAXING CRESCENT stood tall and alive\nTrying is best not to WANE that is to what it would strive\nBut the GIBBOUS stood,  WAXING OR WANING\nAnd new that the CRESCENT was futily straining\nBecause the stars were watching with NEW facination\nAs the men missed this site because of their jubilation\nThey were engrossed from the FIRST to the LAST QUARTER of watching their favorite sport station
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My Mother-in-Law is convinced that the phases of the moon and changes in the wind predict the weather pattern until the moon starts to next wax/wane.\n\nAs a scientist I know that this is twaddle.\n\nThe trouble is, she has an uncanny knack of being right.
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The moon spins about an axis. The axis  is almost perpendicular to the plane of the moons orbit around the earth. The period of spin (time to complete one rotation about the spin axis) is equal to the period of one revolution around the earth.\n  The result is we see one side of the moon.\nFor many people this answer is not suffice to understand.\nImagine a cubical building in a plain ground. The four vertical walls are marked A,B,C,D.  Imagine the building to be the moon and we are standing infront of the wall marked A. Let us go round the building to see the other walls in the order of ABCD. When we have finished quarter round we can have the full view of the wall B. But imagine  that the building rotates itself such that when we finished quarter round it also has rotated quarter round about itself. We will see only the wall A. If the things continue like this we can never see the other walls.When we complete one round the building completes one round so always we see only the wall A.\n Due to librations actually we can see 59% of the moon instead of 50%
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i would generally say no its not, as the atmosphere is only between 5 adn 10 miles high, the moon is considerably further away than this.\n\ncant explainy why its like this has something to do with the creation of the solar system the mood being far away and such.