In India the moon appears to be lying in the sky like a bowl sitting on a table rather than on end? Why?
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The Earth is round.\nObviously at lower latitudes you view the moon from a different angle than what you would at higher latitudes.\nSo that at the equater the moon when rising would look like a bowl from that angle in that phase.
1126649
Yes, everything's upside down from down under!\n\nIf you're facing south looking at an early crescent setting in the northern hemisphere, the Moon is on your right, and the Sun is further to the right (west), so the right (west) side of the Moon is illuminated.  From the southern hemisphere, you're facing north, and west is on your left.  The western side of the Moon is still illuminated, but now you see it on the left. The Moon, of course, appears upside down.
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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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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.
1166386
The shape of the moon does not actually change, but it is the shadow of the earth that gives the illusion. The moon revolves around the earth due to which we have full moon, no moon and half moon periods as it travels betweeen the shadow of the earth. During the period from no moon to full moon, the earth is in between the moon and the sun due to which the earth's shadow falls directly on the moon and thus we cannot see the illuminated part of the moon.As the earth graduallly moves away from the position, we can see the illuminated part of the moon which appears in the shape of a crest.  Also due to the non existence of atmosphere on the moon, there is distinct difference in the illuminated and the dark part of the moon. During the period from full moon to no moon, it again moves from the shadow of the earth and thus at one point is completely overshadowed by the earth and doing the disappearing act.
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Two possibilities not previously mentioned: first, phone your various friends around the world, and ask them the time! You will then find out that the sun is at a different height in the sky at different places. So at least the world is not flat, since the sun is very much farther out than the distances between any two points on earth.\n\nSecond, wait for a lunar eclipse. This is the Earth's shadow projected on the moon. It is round. The Earth is not a disk (see first experiment) but casts a round shadow: a sphere seems indicated. In fact, it is a sliughtly flattened sphere (ellipsoid, in fancy language)
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both are always in the sky. sun goes round the earth and the earth goes round the moon. depends on the time of year moon cycles etc etc
180125
It looks from your question that you think there's a place where the moon is always overhead. This is not the case. On the other hand, if you are between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn, there will be times when the moon is directly overhead.
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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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It appears as a 3/4 moon.  It helps to make a drawing to visualize this.  The distance from earth to moon is a very small fraction of the distance from either earth or moon to the sun, so it's fair to approximate the light rays hitting earth and moon as parallel.  First, place the moon such that the earth-moon line is at 90 degrees to the earth-sun line.  In this setup we on earth who can see the moon at all see a half moon and moonlings who can see earth see a half earth.  Next move the moon further away from the sun so the earth-moon line is at 45 degrees to the earth-sun line.  Now the moon sees only 1/4 of the sunlit part of earth, a crescent.  (This is the situation described in the question.)  From earth, however, we see 3/4 of the sunlit part of the moon.  Whether the moon phase is waxing or waning depends on which "side" of the sun-earth-sun line the moon is on relative to the moon's earth-orbital rotation direction.
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I would expand this to say that a lunar eclipse occurs when the earth is positioned directly between the sun and the moon, and their plane of orbits align.\n\nThe last point is critical because you could easily wonder why we don't have lunar eclipses every month when the moon's orbit is such that the earth is in the middle... because the order of the planets is not only important, but that they line up just exact so that the earth's shadow does not fall just above or below the moon, but directly on it.
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It has to do with refraction due to different densities of air-in cooler climates, there tends to be much warmer air near the surface, with colder air in higher altitudes, plus the colder air is much more dense, so acts like a magnifying lense- The very largest moon-views are always seen close to the horizon because of this.
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It's all an illusion. The periterrestrial sky has tiny landmarks to make the moon look big. In the higher heaves all you see is sky, which shows the true tiny size of the moon.
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It's an optical illusion, because you can easily compare it to other objects on the ground when the moon is closer to the ground.
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No, the moon's plane is on a 5-degree tilt from the earth-sun plane, which means the moon is slightly above or below the earth most of the time.  We only experience eclipses when the moon just happens to be passing through (on its way from below or from above the earth) to the other extreme, and the sun happens to be in line.  Eclipses are fairly rare.\n\n\n***BTW, Melindora is wrong... total solar and total lunar eclipses happen on the earth about once every 12-18 months.  They are not always easy to get to, as the eclipse path might be in Antarctica or somewhere.  Partial eclipses happen even more often.
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Its more of an elispse, not perfectly round due to the gravitational pull of the oceans by the moon and due to mountains.
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Think rally hard. The moon has gravity just like the earth. Have you ever seen a flag on earth stand that straight? They had a metal pole across the top and the grainy video make it look as if it is fluttering.