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    When looking at the Moon, how can one tell if it's waxing and moving towards full or waning and moving back towards the new moon?

    Question #108705. Asked by shalomnow. (Sep 10 09 6:12 PM)


    cag1970

    		In the Northern Hemisphere, when the moon is waxing, the illumination progresses from new moon to full moon from right to left. In the moon's first quarter, the phase midway between new moon and full moon, the right half of the moon is lit, while the left half is in darkness.

    When the moon is waning, the illumination regresses from right to left from full moon to new moon. In the moon's third quarter, the phase midway between full moon and new moon, the left half of the moon is lit, while the right half is in darkness.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_of_the_moon

    Sep 10 09, 7:13 PM
    looney_tunes

    		and, of course, in the Southern Hemisphere it is reversed!
    http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/time/moon/phases.html

    Sep 11 09, 1:13 AM
    gmackematix

    		In the northern hemisphere I think of it as:
    Left means getting Less.
    Right means gRowing moRe.

    Sep 11 09, 4:46 PM

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