Is there a name for when you can see the moon in the sky during the day?

Question

That is all - just always wondered what to call it - rather than say "look I can see the moon and its daytime" I could sound really clever and impress astronomers innit...

Answer 1

Daytime Moon

I dig up an astronomy book and find the Moon's relative brightness. The Full Moon has about 1/400,000th the brightness of the Sun. Yet the Full Moon sheds enough light that we can read a newspaper at night. It's over 33,000 times brighter than Sirius, which helps explain why, in the daytime, we don't see Sirius but do see the Moon.

I read that the Moon has one of the lowest reflectivities of all the objects in the Solar System. Curious. It looks bright and white even with an average reflectivity of an asphalt parking lot.

Almost every day in a lunar month, we can see the daytime Moon. The days we cannot are when the Moon is Full, when it's New, and a few days before and after the New Moon.

An exactly Full Moon is invisible (or at least not easily seen) during the day because then the Moon is opposite the Sun with the Earth in between. The Full Moon sets when the Sun rises (except near the poles) so we can't see the Moon during the day. It's below the horizon, shining brilliantly on the other side--the night side--of Earth.

When the Moon is New it will be dark and unseen and, for at least two days either side of the New Moon, the Crescent Moon will be "too faint and close to the Sun to be seen with the naked eye--although it might be glimpsed at sunset," says Robert Massey, astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.

The Moon is close to Earth and that's why we see bright sunlight reflected from its asphalt-parking-lot surface even in the daytime and even when part of the Moon is in shadow.

Answer 2

Daytime Moon.

Answer 3

Actually, you can see all of the phases except for the phases new and full. So, the phases you can see during the day are: waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, waning gibbous, last quarter, and waning crescent. For the moon to be visible during the day, it must be up in the sky at the same time as the sun, but not so close to the sun in the sky that you can't see it. The full moon rises at sunset, is up all night, and sets at sunrise, so you can't see a full moon in the daytime. And for a few days closest to new moon, the moon is too close to the sun in the sky, and the phase is too thin for you to see.

Answer 4

the moon is called the daytime moon.
actually, the brightest moon in 2006 could only be seen in the states,canada,mexico,brazil etc

Answer 5

yes..it's called alive.