time." This happen before it is really dark -- just at twilight time. Now, once while camping in the Colorado mountains, I was up very early and I looked over to the West, I saw the big, beautiful, full moon going down. It looked just like the rising moon looks when it is rising in the East in the late afternoon. Now, the question is ---- does this happen as often as the "full moon rising" in the last afternoon? Is it just that I have not been in a position to see it in the past?
2006-08-27 13:58:42 · 7 answers · asked by Bluebeard 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Yup! Everything in the sky (stars, planets, sun, moon) rises in the east and sets in the west, no matter where you are observing from. The Moon is full when it is opposite the Sun in our sky, so a Full Moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise (again, no matter where you are observing from).
You can have lots of fun with this - a first quarter moon rises at noon and sets at midnight, while a third quarter moon rises at midnight and sets at noon. I could go on and on, but I'll let you discover the rest on your own, instead. Here's a good website to start at:
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/moon_phases.html
2006-08-27 14:09:20 · answer #1 · answered by kris 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It happens every 28 days or close to 13 times a year.
It is when the moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the sun and get almost fully lighted by the sun.
The top limb of the moon rises near the East as the bottom limb of the sun hits the horzon in the west. By the time the sun has fully gone below the western horizaon the moon is fully above the Eastern horizon and then sets in the West as the sun starts to come up in the East.
2006-08-27 23:17:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I sometimes get the feeling that lots of people still do not realize the Earth turns once on 24 hours, or if they do, they do not realize that it is the reason everything rolls across the sky from East to West.
Everything that rises must set, unless the Earth suddenly stopped turning.
2006-08-27 21:27:26 · answer #3 · answered by nick s 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it does. As far as full moon lore goes, remember that people act crazier when you can see the full moon and the sun both in the sky at the same time. This happens more than you would think.
2006-08-27 21:02:12 · answer #4 · answered by swarr2001 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, that happens every month, and as you said, it's just that you haven't had the chance to see it very often.
2006-08-27 21:05:30 · answer #5 · answered by catintrepid 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it does.
Sometimes depending on the actual setting it is hard to see but when you can watch it, it always amazes me.
2006-08-27 21:48:14 · answer #6 · answered by Harley Charley 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You just never seen it before.
2006-08-27 21:18:49 · answer #7 · answered by Brandy U 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋