does the moon rise every night at the same time and in the same location?

Question

Can someone help me? I need to write this report for a science fair & I had no idea what to do. The report is about: does the moon rise every night at the same time and in the same location?

Answer 1

No it does not. As the moon orbits the earth, it will rise later and later every day. As for rising in the same location, well it does pretty much but it varies like how the location of sunrises varies because the earth is tilted and wobbling on its axis. The moon more or less orbits along the ecliptic, which is the path we see the sun and planets take through the sky. This happens because everything in the solar system orbits along the same plane (think a giant pancake).

Answer 2

The moon rises very roughly an hour later each day/night. This difference can actually be only like 40 minutes later, or sometimes more than an hour.

To say the moon orbits the sun and is heavily perturbed by the Earth is not exactly incorrect, but when determining a valid orbital frame of reference, the one that has the smallest amount of peturbation is the most accurate, and that one is where the moon orbits the Earth and is very slightly perturbed by the sun.

As far as the direction it rises from, this changes over the course of a month too. It will fluctuate from rising anywhere from 18 to 28 degrees north of east, down to due east, then down to 18 to 28 degrees south of east and back again.

Answer 3

No. The moon revolves around the earth (really it revolves around the sun, in an orbit greatly perturbed by the earth) and moves in it's orbit westward (eastward in our sky) about 15 or so degrees each day. So, it would seem that the moon would rise about an hour later each night.

However, because of the tilt of the moon relative to the equator of the earth and to the ecliptic it sometimes happens that the moon's path is more nearly parallel to the horizon. So, when that happens it rises at nearly the same time each evening, for some several weeks. When this occurs in the fall (northern hemisphere) it is called the Harvest Moon (if it's nearly full).

The moon does not rise at the same place each night (or day), for the same reason as the sun does not--the relative tilts of the various axes of rotation and revolution.

Answer 4

NO an entire moon constantly upward push at 6 pm, a million/2 waxing moon constantly rises at someplace around 12 am, a million/2 waning moon constantly rises at 12 pm, and ineffective moon constantly upward push at 6 am (constantly in the afternoon, whilst the sky is obvious blue) no longer constantly precisely in the east, in case you reside in the northern hemisphere, in iciness time it rises closer to the southeast path, on a similar time as in the summertime, it is going to rises closer to the northeast path.

Answer 5

No and neither do the sun or stars. We are all traveling about the sun and each of us have our own eliptical planes. Consequently the sunrise and sunset points travel along the horizon as does the moon and stars. also the tilt of ther earth as we move about the sun changes those points.

Answer 6

NO!

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Answer 7

yes it does because we only have one moon. It might not be the same time on our clocks, but it rises at the same time universal. But then its morning over here and ight in China and like the next day in Australia. oh boy., I am now confused.

Answer 8

no not at the same time or the same location it has to move i mean have u noticed it sometimes can be really close or really far away