Does the moon rise in the east and set in the west?

Answer 1

That is the commonly used terminology for what it appears to do.

Answer 2

Your question doesnt appear to make sense you say " if the moon rises from the east and sets in the west " you then continue with, " Its rising in the East now " So where is your problem , Its doing exacty what you said it should do Don

Answer 3

Neither the moon nor the Sun rises in the east or sets in the west.It is the illusion created by the Continuous Eastward movement of Earth and also the rightward spin.about its own axis.

Answer 4

not necessarily. Rise only comes from the spin of the earth, because the sun is stationary. The moon is not, which is how we get things like lunar eclipses, you may not first see the moon in the evening in the east.

Answer 5

It certainly moves from east to west.

Answer 6

at night on the earth= yes.
However the relative motion of the moon relative to the sun is in the form of a cycloid. and it moves counterclockwise fromwest to east.

Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

Everything on the celestial sphere rotates from east to west (due to Earth's rotation the other way). In relation to the Sun, the average rate is 15 degrees per hour (360 degrees in 24 hours).

In relation to the stars, it is a tiny bit quicker: because we turn once around the sun in 365 days, we rotate 366 times in relation to the stars in the same period. So the sidereal day is (approx.) 365/366 times 24 hours. The rate is 366/365 times 15 degrees per hour.

The Moon goes once around the Earth in 30 days (I'm using round figures). In relation to the Sun, it appears to go East at a rate of 360 degrees in 30 days = 12 degrees per day = 0.5 degrees per hour.

Therefore, the apparent movement of the Moon (in degrees per hour) is 15 W + 0.5 E = 14.5 W.

The Moon still goes from East to West.

So, if the Moon is rising from where you are, then it rises in the East. If the Moon sets, then it sets in the West.

Just as the Sun may fail to rise or set on certain days in certain regions (polar regions), there are also places and times where and when the Moon fails to rise or set (that is why I was careful in my wording above).

The Moon never rises in the West and never sets in the East from any stationary point on Earth.

If you are moving West at a rate (in longitude) of 14.7 degrees per hour, then the sun will appear to move westward at only 0.3 degree per hour (a very long day) and the Moon will appear to go eastward at 0.2 degree per hour. From that airplane, it will appear to set in the East (in reality, your plane would be outracing the Moon).


Edit: I've corrected a calculation mistake: 360 divided by 30 is 12, not 36... Sorry.


PS: real numbers (in case you want to do a more precise example):
Sun 15 degrees per hour on average.
Star 15˚02'28" per hour
Moon 12˚11'26" per day relative to the Sun on average (varies a lot from day to day)
Moon 14˚29'31" per hour on average (changes a lot from day to day)
Synodic month (average) 29.530589 days

Answer 9

Not neccesarily, because we move prior to the sun, not the moon. The moon revolves around Earth, like we revolve around the sun.

Answer 10

I believe it rises backwards on the other side of the prime meridian.