Why can we still sometimes see the Moon in the daytime?

Question

And why do the bits that at night are the darker bits turn blue, as if it's only the high bits of the Moon that show up?

Answer 1

Believe it or not, the moon, just like the sun, rises and sets every day. Unlike the sun, however, which has a rising and setting centralized around noontime, the moon rises approximately 1 hour later each day and sets approximately 12 hours later. So, a moon that rises when the sun is setting (a full moon, actually), will set approximately when the sun rises. But the following day, it will set approximately an hour after sunrise, then two hours after sunrise, etc. Sooner or later, you will be awake and notice that the moon is out during the day.
The dark bits of the moon being blue is an illusion; they are still black, since they indicate areas of shadow on the moon.

Answer 2

Hello,

To answer your question, the reason we see the moon still in the day time is purely to do with the moons position in space in relationship to the earth itself. The moon is visable by reflected light from our sun & so its quite possible that the moon is above the horizon even in our day time and remains a very strongly lit body, so much so that its the brightest object in the sky (after the sun of course) and so still visable.

NOTE: even when the moon is visable in the day time, its always on the opposite side of the sky from the sun.

**Sorry! I'm not sure I understand the second part of your question, so cannot help.

IR

Answer 3

Where did you go to school? Everybody knows that the moon is the back side of the Sun. When you see the moon during the day, you are actually seeing a double reflection of the back side of the Sun (the Moon) which is reflected off the interior surface of the "Firmament" (Where God keeps the water he used for Noah's flood) it is then re-reflected to the opposite interior side of the Firmament where it appears normal in the sky. I hope this explains it for you.

Answer 4

because the light reflected from it's surface is still bright enough o be seen in daytime despite the brightness spread by the sun.

Answer 5

yes

Answer 6

as above