phases of the moon 🌑🌛🌓🌔🌝🌖🌗🌜

according to Wikipedia: the free encyclopaedia, the lunar phase or Moon phase is the shape of the Moon's directly sunlit portion, which can be expressed quantitatively using areas or angles or described qualitatively using the terminology.

the lunar phases gradually change over a synodic month (29.53 days) 

the phases of the moon (as shown in the diagram) are

🌑 New Moon

🌒 Waxing Crescent

🌓 First Quarter

🌔 Waxing Gibbous

🌕 Full Moon

🌖 Waning Gibbous

🌗 Third Quarter

🌘 Waning Crescent

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sounds simple enough. though the names can be confusing as "Quarter" is normally shown differently in drawings, while in this case there are 8 total phases and it takes 4 phases to get to another quarter, hence the name quart.

still easier to get your head around how Lunar Eclipses work.

on paper it just looks normal, after all the Sun is WAY BIGGER than the Earth and the Moon.

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bibliography to educate yourselves: 📚📚🦉

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_phase

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/moon-phases/en/

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Musical Post Script ♪

there are SO MANY songs about the phases of the moon, and I for one am SUPER APPRECIATIVE of them!

1 the first cover saw/heard 

2 'you be killin' him' style

3  'forget you' style

4  'Havana' style 

5. Ducktales moon theme - not about the moon, more for EXPOSITION. 

which moon/space songs do you like?

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