When it is a full moon in the southern hemisphere is it also full in the northern hemisphere?
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The full moon is visible as full anywhere\non earth where it is above the horizon...\nobviously if it is far in the southern\nhemisphere and you are far north, like\nin northern Finland, you may not see the\nfull moon at all... (but if you could it\nwould still appear full)
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Yes.  December 22, for example, is the shortest day of the year (if you're talking about hours of daylight) in the northern hemisphere.  However, that same day, December 22, is the longest day of the year in the southern hemisphere.\n\nConversely, June 22 is the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, and the shortest day of the year in the southern hemisphere.\n\nInteresting Trivia: There are about 82 days in Barrow, Alaska where the sun never fully sets.  It only partially dips down below the horizon, then rises again.  The summer baseball league there often schedules games at 2am and 3am.
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A full moon occurs when the sun and the moon are on opposite sides of the Earth, so a full moon WILL rise at ABOUT the same time the sun sets.
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Summer and Winter in the Northern Hemisphere, i.e. for countries north of the equator are seasons that occur, along with Spring and Autumn (or Fall) as follows.\n\nSpring : March 21st to June 21st.\nSummer : June 22nd to September 21st.\nAutumn : September 22nd to December 21st\nWinter : December 22nd to March 20th.\n\n\nHowever the seasons are seen differently. Most people see Spring as starting in mid-March until mid June and Summer from then until September but Autumn until late October with Winter from then until the following march.\n\nIn the Southern hemisphere, south of the equator the seasons are reversed by six months so they would be\n\nAutumn : March 21st to June 21st\nWinter : June 22nd to September 21st\nSpring : September 22nd to December 21st\nSummer : December 22nd to March 20th.\n\nIn Australia Christmas Day is usually spent having a barbecue on the beach.\n\nThe reason for this difference is due to the Earth tilting as it orbits the Sun so that every six months the two poles become 'reversed' as far as closeness or proximity to the Sun is concerned.
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It's also true with water going down the drain. It goes the other way in the southern hemisphere, because of the earths rotation.
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One major reason is that more of the southern hemisphere is actually ocean, so it serves as more of a heat sink and keeps the temperatures more stable.\n\nIn addition to that, if you look a globe, you'll notice that the majority of the land in the southern hemisphere (except for Antarctica) is a lot closer to the Equator than the land in the northern hemisphere is.  On most maps you don't really notice it as much because they don't bother printing the whole strip of landless ocean and a lot of Antarctica.\n\nUpdate:  In response to itchybeard below, the Earth's perihelion (closest approach to the sun) occurs in January (this year it was January 4, at about 3 pm GMT).  Thus we are actually closer to the sun during the northern hemisphere's winter, not during the southern hemisphere's.  This would be reason why the summers in the southern hemisphere tend to be hotter than ours, but not why our winters are colder.
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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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Facing south when in the northern hemisphere, and facing north when in the southern hemisphere. That gives them the greatest amount of sun during the winter.
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Yes, but to a degree. The horizon line is going to be different, so you will see some of the stars, although a bit displaced, that the Northern hemisphere sees, and you will see a lot more that is only visible to the Southern hemisphere.
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• Full Wolf Moon - January Amid the cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. Thus, the name for January's full Moon. Sometimes it was also referred to as the Old Moon, or the Moon After Yule. Some called it the Full Snow Moon, but most tribes applied that name to the next Moon.\n\n• Full Snow Moon - February Since the heaviest snow usually falls during this month, native tribes of the north and east most often called February's full Moon the Full Snow Moon. Some tribes also referred to this Moon as the Full Hunger Moon, since harsh weather conditions in their areas made hunting very difficult.\n\n• Full Worm - March Moon As the temperature begins to warm and the ground begins to thaw, earthworm casts appear, heralding the return of the robins. The more northern tribes knew this Moon as the Full Crow Moon, when the cawing of crows signaled the end of winter; or the Full Crust Moon, because the snow cover becomes crusted from thawing by day and freezing at night. The Full Sap Moon, marking the time of tapping maple trees, is another variation. To the settlers, it was also known as the Lenten Moon, and was considered to be the last full Moon of winter.\n\n• Full Pink Moon - April This name came from the herb moss pink, or wild ground phlox, which is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring. Other names for this month's celestial body include the Full Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and among coastal tribes the Full Fish Moon, because this was the time that the shad swam upstream to spawn.\n\n• Full Flower Moon - May In most areas, flowers are abundant everywhere during this time. Thus, the name of this Moon. Other names include the Full Corn Planting Moon, or the Milk Moon.\n\n• Full Strawberry Moon - June This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe. However, in Europe they called it the Rose Moon. Also because the relatively short season for harvesting strawberries comes each year during the month of June . . . so the full Moon that occurs during that month was christened for the strawberry!\n\n• The Full Buck Moon - July July is normally the month when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. It was also often called the Full Thunder Moon, for the reason that thunderstorms are most frequent during this time. Another name for this month's Moon was the Full Hay Moon.\n\n• Full Sturgeon Moon - August The fishing tribes are given credit for the naming of this Moon, since sturgeon, a large fish of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water, were most readily caught during this month. A few tribes knew it as the Full Red Moon because, as the Moon rises, it appears reddish through any sultry haze. It was also called the Green Corn Moon or Grain Moon.\n\n• Full Harvest Moon - September This is the full Moon that occurs closest to the autumn equinox. In two years out of three, the Harvest Moon comes in September, but in some years it occurs in October. At the peak of harvest, farmers can work late into the night by the light of this Moon. Usually the full Moon rises an average of 50 minutes later each night, but for the few nights around the Harvest Moon, the Moon seems to rise at nearly the same time each night: just 25 to 30 minutes later across the U.S., and only 10 to 20 minutes later for much of Canada and Europe. Corn, pumpkins, squash, beans, and wild rice the chief Indian staples are now ready for gathering.\n\n• Full Hunter's Moon - October With the leaves falling and the deer fattened, it is time to hunt. Since the fields have been reaped, hunters can easily see fox and the animals which have come out to glean.\n\n• Full Beaver Moon - November This was the time to set beaver traps before the swamps froze, to ensure a supply of warm winter furs. Another interpretation suggests that the name Full Beaver Moon comes from the fact that the beavers are now actively preparing
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When the light from the sun hits the moon, it is reflected to us which causes "Moonlight". This is the same light and source that allows us to see a bit of the shadows on the moon. \n\nThe suns and moons position in relation to one another is also what gives us the phases of the moon.  When the moon is directly opposite of the sun (with Earth not being directly in the line of sight) this gives us our full moon. \n\nIn short, there is only one type of light on the moon, the suns light hitting the moons surface.
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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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In the northern Hemisphere the days are longer during the summer months and shorter in the winter months.  The opposite is true in the Southern Hemisphere.  To get exactly length of the day I think you would need a computer program.  The calculation seems a bit complicated.
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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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In December 25 the South Pole is pointed towards the sun therefore the sun elevation is high in the southern hemisphere. As New Zealand is in the southern hemisphere it experiences summer. Around December 25 the earth reaches the highest elevation in the southern hemisphere and hence this is the hottest day in New Zealand and all other parts of the southern hemisphere
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It's not different months, it's times of the months. This is because the of the moon's position in relation to us. The moon always faces us with the same side but that is not always the lit side. When it is a full moon, the sun light is reflecting off of "our" side of the moon. In a new moon, it is reflecting off of the other side.
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The Earth's axis is tilted 23 degrees. Therefore, when it is winter in the Northern hemisphere, the North pole is tilted away ffrom the sun and experiences a six month night, while the South Pole has a six month long day. Then at the Spring and Autumn equinoxes, both poles get the same amount of sunlight for a few minutes at Noon.