is it possible to see the moon at daytime?

Answer 1

It all depends on the position of the moon and sun in the sky. Yes, it is possible to see the moon during the day if the moon is in the right position to reflect the sunlight and be seen in your area.

Answer 2

Yes!

What a good question, Why do we see the Moon in the day? Of course, it's there but many things are there that we don't see. We don't see the bright star Sirius in the day. We 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.

Answer 3

Yes it is, and what is more you can see it at almost any time of day over the course of the lunar cycle. I never cease to be amazed that this question comes up as often as it does (not just here). Have you really never, not once, looked up and seen the Moon in the daytime sky?

When the Moon is full it is directly opposite the Sun in the sky, so you see it rise as the Sun sets, and set as the Sun rises. You will never see a full Moon in the middle of the day (although you can see it rising while it is still light). When the Moon is, for example, a waxing crescent, it rises shortly after the Sun and follows the Sun across the sky throughout the day. When it is a waning crescent it rises just before the Sun and leads the Sun across the sky throughout the day, setting shortly before the Sun. At first quarter the Moon rises around midday, and at last quarter it rises around midnight and sets at midday.

Answer 4

You can see the moon in daytime during most of the lunar cycle.

You cannot see it at full moon, when the moon rises as the sun sets

Round about the new moon, the moon is too close to the sun to be seen easily, except during a solar eclipse when the moon is directly between us and the sun.

Answer 5

Of course it is. The Moon is in the sky approximately 12 hours out of every 24, and many of those hours are daylight. The only time you can't see the Moon at some point during the day is when the Moon is full or new. When the Moon is full it rises at sunset and sets at sunrise, and when it's new, it's too close to the Sun to be seen (except during a solar eclipse).

Answer 6

Yes. I have seen it in the daytime hundreds of times. You will can see it today, in the East, well before sunset. Almost half of all days have the Moon visible in the sky during daylight for at least part of the day.

Answer 7

Yes it is possible to see the moon during the day. I still get a little geeked when I notice it during the day! :)

If you interested in stuff like that you should check out the podcast that the Adler Planetarium does. It's called Adler Night and Day. I think you'd like it.

Answer 8

yeah you can surely see.I had prepared a nice experiment for that.Take two broken cooling glasses(useless sun glasses).Keep them in 180 degree and cover the remaining open part with thermacoal sheet.Now see sun through the glasses,now you can see moon very next to sun.Just try it lol.Good Question...!!

Answer 9

Yes. I don't know why, though. When I was little, my mom taught me this song to sing every time we saw it in the daytime-
"Mr moon, Mr moon,
You're out too soon,
The sun is still in the sky,
Go back to bed and cover your head,
and wait till the day goes by."

Aw wee... Memories!

Answer 10

Yes;I have seen many times though its image is faint.