This Week if you look at the shimmering moon in the night you can see that the shape of the moon has changed. The moon is going into its first quarter. This is when you can see half of the moon as so in this picture.
First quarter is also when the moon is going to a new moon. The first quarter is a waning quarter.Meaning that the moon gets smaller after this phase passes. One very cool thing that I noticed that I have never noticed before is that when you look at the moon at night during any phases you can still see the whole moon just not lit up. For example during, lets say, a waning crescent,
even though the phase of the moon is a crescent (the part lit up is a crescent) the light still shines a tiny bit around the boarder of the moon showing the whole moon. You can only see this if you study the moon for a couple minutes. Only then can you see it. This is my little discovery of the week that I found really cool.
even though the phase of the moon is a crescent (the part lit up is a crescent) the light still shines a tiny bit around the boarder of the moon showing the whole moon. You can only see this if you study the moon for a couple minutes. Only then can you see it. This is my little discovery of the week that I found really cool.
