Question

You see the moon in the sky right before the sunrise. You immediately recognize that it may be either in the first quarter or in the third quarter, but you are still not sure which is the correct phase. (a) Where in the sky is the moon located - east, west, south or elsewhere?

Answer 1

Lunar phases are given below.

Step-by-step explanation:

• The Moon Is a natural satellite of earth and has the same rotational motion of earth thus we tend to see the same face every day and each year as the moon has 7-8 phases and each phase is a product of the interaction of the moon with the sun's solar light.

• The first phase is of a new moon i.e the disk is completely invisible to the earth, starts at noon from 6 am to 6 pm. Then comes the waxing crescent period of the moon in which the moon is a 90-degree angle is 0.1% of the sick is visible as a crescent form starting from 9 am to 9 pm.

• The first quarter comes up at midnight and when the moon disk is at 50% visible to the earth and this starts at 6 pm at noon. The waxing gibbous moon occurs at the 3 am to 3 pm and the disk is 50 to 99% lit by the sun.

• Followed by the full moon and which has 100% of the disk visible to earth and usually starts from 6 pm to 6 am. And ret follows when the moon declines its axis from the slope of earth.