Because there is a cracker of one right outside my window. looking east.
2007-08-28 09:23:01 · 10 answers · asked by Old Man of Coniston!. 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Turn off all lights in a room except a lamp with a bulb about eye-level. Remove the shade. Stand 10 feet away from it. Hold a tennis ball 2 feet in front of your face.
The lamp is the Sun, your head is the Earth and the tennis ball is the Moon.
Rotate slowly!
When you are sideways on to the lamp, you’ll see one half of the tennis ball lit up by the lamp (half-moon).
When it is between you and the lamp, the bit you can see is dark (new moon) and if they are exactly in line it will obscure the lamp (solar eclipse)
When you are facing away from the lamp, the tennis ball is fully lit (full moon) unless your head’s in the way (lunar eclipse).
A fly(or a human), standing anywhere on your head (or the Earth), will see the same view of the tennis ball (or phase of the Moon).
2007-08-30 01:18:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The phase of the moon will be the same all over the world on a given day. What will change is when you see it.
A full moon, for example, will always be visible low in the eastern horizon around sunset. Why? Because for the moon to be fully lit from our vantagepoint, the earth has to be in between the sun and moon. So if the sun is setting in the west, the moon will be in the east, on the opposite side of the sky.
But with the time zones and the earth's rotation and all that, that event is at a different "real" time all over the world. But the phase will be the same, because the phase is determined by the moons location in it's orbit compared to earth, and that doesn't change no matter where on earth you are.
2007-08-28 16:57:24 · answer #2 · answered by wesleytj 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, exactly right!
Here's why.
The phenomenon causing the full moon is that of the moon orbiting the earth. When it moves into a line like this: Sun - Earth - Moon : in that order, you have a full moon.
The phenomenon that causes some parts of the world to see the moon while, at the same instant, others do not, is the earth's rotation. Right now, at 8:30 p.m. GMT (= 4:30 p.m. US Eastern Daylight Time), England the the Middle East are seeing the moon, while the United States and New Zealand are not. But the earth's rotation has absolutely nothing to do with whether the sun, earth and moon are in a straight line.
2007-08-28 16:29:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anne Marie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This full moon is very important to some sects in the Muslim world ( although with their calender moving forward 10 days for every one of our years, it will be a different full moon next year!
It is the middle of Shaban, the month before Ramadan. The Shia sects hold a festival pretty much like the one held in the middle of Ramadan. Sweets and nuts are given to children and people get together in communities to celebrate.
The huge and seemingly low lying moon will make it seem all the more romantic!!
2007-08-29 07:05:58 · answer #4 · answered by Christine H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it doesn't matter where you are on Earth. The phases of the moon are caused by the moon's position related to the sun as viewed from Earth.
When the sun and moon are opposite each other (with the Earth in the middle), the moon is full. If the Earth is directly in the middle, it causes a full lunar eclipse as the Earth's shadow is cast on the moon.
As the moon, sun and Earth move out of this alignment, we see the moon from a different angle in relationship to the sun. This causes the phases.
If you were able to move out in space to a different viewing angle, you could always find a full moon someplace, but since we are stuck on Earth, we can only see the angle presented to us in relationship to the sun.
2007-08-28 16:48:41 · answer #5 · answered by Joe B. 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The moon remains full for about 2 days out of every month (as close as can be seen with the naked eye). So everyone on the planet experiences the full moon on the same day. But NOT at the same time, because obviously the whole planet is not facing the moon simultaneously.
2007-08-28 16:48:36 · answer #6 · answered by dansinger61 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, you place on the earth just changes the position of the moon in the sky, not the percentage of its lit surface you can see.
2007-08-28 16:32:26 · answer #7 · answered by CinderBlock 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you really are from Coniston we aren't so far away...and yes the moon is magnificent....and yes it is the same the world over I believe.as its the earths shadow on the moon which causes the phases of the moon.....
2007-08-28 16:31:49 · answer #8 · answered by Knownow't 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Yes, it's full everywhere, however, depending on where you live, depends on the hours it is offically full and when it offically ends.
2007-08-28 16:41:08 · answer #9 · answered by Charm 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes, tell him to pull his pants up
2007-08-28 20:33:02 · answer #10 · answered by islammanyes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋