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Moon Phases

All about the moon and whats around us

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Umbra The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object, especially the area on the earth or moon experiencing the total phase of an eclipse.
Penumbra The partially shaded outer region of the shadow cast by an opaque object.
Full Moon The phase of the moon in which its whole disk is illuminated.
New Moon The phase of the moon when it is in conjunction with the sun and invisible from earth, or shortly thereafter when it appears as a slender crescent.
Waning Crescent (Of the moon) have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in size.
Waxing Crescent The moon at any time after new moon and before full moon, so called because its illuminated area is increasing.
Third Quarter consisting of three quarters of something (used especially with reference to size or length):
Gibbous Astronomy. (of a heavenly body) convex at both edges, as the moon when more than half full.
Moon phases The different phases of the moon are caused by the angle from which an observer on earth can see the moon illuminated by the sun as it orbits our planet. As the moon makes its way around the earth a person can look up in the sky and see various fractions
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