What is it called when the sun and moon are visible at the same time?
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If the sun and the moon are both visible at the same time, then the first answer of course would be daytime.  However, for the moon to be visible during the day, it has to have risen somewhere in the 6 am - 6pm range.  this means that the moon can be in any phase from new moon through first quarter and almost to full moon.  So, the final answer to the question would be that when the sun and moon are both visible, it is called daytime during the first half of the lunar cycle.
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The moon gets in the way of our view of the sun.  Since coincidentally, the two disks (i.e., two-dimensional view of a sphere) have the same apparent size when viewed from the earth, the moon covers most of the sun, exposing the corona, which is normally invisible.  The corona is the thinner part of the sun which is not normally visible because of the glare from the main disc.\n\nHowever, here's an interesting question:  how far out in space would you have to be before looking at our sun (call him Sol), you would just see a bright star, and part of that star would be the earth?  That is, when we say "the solar system" to include ourselves and everything out to Pluto, an observer from far out in space would just say "Sol," and mean to include us.  Jefferson Starship sang, "We rode a bubble through the sun . . ."
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No.  The angle between the sun and the moon as viewed from the earth is 180 degrees for the full moon pahse.  This means that the full moon and the sun are always on opposite sides of the earth.\n\nSince the moon is not always "in plane" with the sun, and your horizon is not perfect, it may be possible on occasion, depending on the geography of the horizon, and one's latitute to see the full moon rising as the sun is setting, or to see the full moon setting as the sun is rising.
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You can even see the Moon in the daytime because it is big and brightly lit by the Sun. The surface of the Moon is about as reflective as an asphalt road--rather dark but not totally black. When you look at the Moon, you are seeing the light which reflects off it. This is not nearly as bright as the Sun, but it is up to 100,000 times as bright as the brightest nighttime star. \nDuring the day, the brightness of the sky washes out the light from the stars: a region of the sky including a bright star is only very slightly brighter than a region of the sky without a bright star, so your eye cannot notice the difference. However, the region of the sky containing the Moon is much brighter, so you can see it. You can also sometimes see Venus during the day if the conditions are right and you know exactly where to look, but anything dimmer is lost. \n\nIt might be useful to think of the sun as a large light bulb, and the moon as a large mirror. There are situations where we can't see the light bulb, but we can see the light from the bulb reflected in the mirror. This is the situation when the moon is out at night. We can't see the sun directly because the earth is blocking our view of it, but we can see its light reflected from the moon. However, there are also situations where we can see both the light bulb and the mirror, and this is what is happening when we see the moon during the day. You can explore this for yourself with a light and a hand mirror. Depending on which way you face (away from the light or sideways to the light) you can see either just the mirror, or both the light and the mirror. \n\nI hope this helps!
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When one looks at the beautiful face of the Moon, one can see the glory of the reflected sunlight without the pain of looking directly at it.  Given the moon's phases, it is obvious for both these reasons that the moon is considered a goddess.  That does not go against the worship of the Sun God, but rather enhances it.  The moon could be seen to be worshiping the Sun God herself, when she shines out with his light for all to see, like a priestess reflecting the grandeur of the priest.
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To begin with, we should know that the earth revolves around the sun and the moon revoloves around the earth. When the moon comes in between the earth and the sun and the three are in a straight line, some portion of the earth, which is facing the moon experiences the solar eclipse.\nHowever, when the earth comes in between sun and the moon, then lunar eclipse takes place.( Moon does not have any light of its own, we see it shining because of the sun light. Hence when the sunlight is blocked there is no light for moon to shine and there is lunar eclipse)
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You know that when it's daytime for you, someone on the other side of Earth is experiencing night time - the Sun lights up half of the earth at any given time.  The same is true for the Moon - it is always half lit up by the Sun and half dark.  But we don't always see the lit up side.  Sometimes we do, like tonight (a Full Moon).  But other times we "see" the dark half (a New Moon) (you can't really see the dark half because it's dark!), and sometimes we see a little bit of both (First Quarter Moon, for example).  \n\nWe see different parts of the lit up side and the dark side because the Moon orbits Earth about once every month.  Right now, if you were to see the Sun, Earth, and Moon from high above Earth's north pole, the three would be almost lined up: Sun, then Earth, then Moon.  If they were *perfectly* lined up then there would be a lunar eclipse, but that only happens a couple times a year, if that.  Next week, as the Moon goes around Earth, the Sun, Earth, and Moon will make a right angle and not a straight line.  That's when we see a Third Quarter Moon - only the left half of the Moon will be visible as seen from Earth.  Another week and the Moon will be almost between the Sun and Earth, so the dark side of the Moon will be facing Earth - what we call New Moon.  (If the Moon came exactly between the Sun and Earth we would have a solar eclipse, but just like lunar eclipses they are very rare).\n\nThere is a huge difference between a lunar eclipse and a new moon - apparently several of the people who answered above me don't know that!
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Because the moon reflects light from the sun.
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It is called the Moon Illusion. When the moon is closer to the horizon it looks larger than when it is high in the sky.\n\ncheck this out: http://facstaff.uww.edu/mccreadd/
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refraction from the atmosphere magnifies.  When the moon, or sun, is low on the horizon, you're looking through more of the atmosphere to see it.
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The phases of the moon are the result of the angle the sun and moon make with the earth.  We see a full moon when they are on oposite sides of the earth:\nMoon -- Earth -- Sun\n\nand a quarter moon when the sun and moon are at right angles:\nEarth -- Sun\n  |\nMoon\n\nSince this angle is the same for anyone on earth, the phase is the same as well.
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The sun radiates light, thus it is emitted all around it. The moon reflects light from the sun, thus only the area facing the sun will be light.
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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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the moon rotates around the earth and the earth rotates around the sun, and the earth rotates on it's axis.  sometimes that places the moon on the 'daytime' side of the earth.  depending on where it is relative to the sun that day, we'll see a crescent moon, or half moon—sometimes we won't even see the moon though it's there.\n\nimagine you are the earth and you are holding a heavy ball (the moon) on a rope and spinning around in a circle fast enough to see the ball up in front of you, while at the same time walking in a circle around a house (the sun).  quite often, you would see both the ball and the house at the same time.\n\n//
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The truth is, the moon obviously orbits the earth, right? So you look up and see the moon in the time of day, it is at an angle where other parts of the Earth can see it, sometimes the moon is here in the day time because it is on the same side as we are facing the sun, if it is during the night time, we see the moon because it has orbited behind the Earth, it takes the moon a certain amount of time to get around the Earth.
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A full moon is the phase when the entire circular shape of the moon is visible.\n\nA new moon is the phase when no part of the moon is visible due to the position of the earth.  It happens to block the light from the sun so the moon is not able to be seen.\n\nsilly fact- the term "blue moon" like "once in a blue moon" refers to the unusual event of having two new moons in a calendar month.
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The moon reflects sunlight and even reflected sunlight can interact with droplets of water in the atmosphere such as thin clouds like a layer of fog.  You see the light as a ring because that is the angle of reflection (or refraction) of light from the moon through the moisture's spherical drops to your eyes.  The moon can even produce moonbows, similar to rainbows (but no pot of gold?).