Does the moon rise at the same time and location every night?

Question

I need to know quickly because it's for a Science fair that is tommorow!

Answer 1

Hi Dani!

No. The moon rises (and sets) in a different time and spot each night.

The moon follows, over 27 days each month, approximately the same path that the sun travels in the year. You know that in March and September, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. If you look in June, however, sunrise is well to the northeast, and in winter the sun rises in the southeast. That's why summer days are long and winter days are so short.

The moon does all of this in the course of a single month. In March 2007, the moon reaches the most southerly point of its orbit around March 13th, and rises in the far southeast in the wee hours of that morning. Two weeks later, around March 26th, it's advanced well into the northeast, rising before noon.

Each night (or day), the moon rises on average about 50 minutes later than the day before. This is only an average, because depending on your latitude, the night-to-night difference varies markedly. In the latitude of New York, 40 degrees N, where I am, the night-to-night difference is only about 25 minutes when the moon is moving northward. That's what sets up the harvest moon in the autumn, when on nights following the full moon, the moon comes out only a few minutes later each night for nearly a week.

When the moon is moving southward, as on (Northern Hemisphere) spring nights after full moon, moon rise doesn't happen until more than 1 hour 15 minutes later than the evening before, so that only about 3 days after full moon it disappears past midnight.

Answer 2

My answer is no. The moon rotates around the earth which rotates around the sun wich rotates around whatever is in the middle of our galaxy (prolly a super massive black hole). It may look like it does from here on earth, but we are all constantly moving and there is no way that will stop, at least not any time soon =)

Answer 3

No it doesnt. The moon starts at a location called "New Moon."
then it goes to waxing crescent, then first quarter, then full moon, then last quarter, then waning crescent, and the finally back to new moon. each name is a different view of the moon.

Answer 4

if you done sankasti ( tradition to impress lord Ganesha) any time this question you would not have asked
moon does not raise at same in same place every night

do sankasti you will never forget timeing moon's raise & also the place where he will show him self first

Answer 5

Are u mad or what? have you never seen moon on successive days? It never rises at the same time. Its position also shifts daily although on successive days it may be unnoticeable.