Question

Make a list of each main phase of the Moon, describing roughly when the Moon rises and sets for each phase. During which phase can you see the Moon in the middle of the morning? In the middle of the afternoon?

Answer 1

Answers and Explanation:

Here are the list of each main phase of the Moon:

1. NEW MOON — usually rises at sunrise and sets at sunset

2. WAXING CRESCENT — usually rises in the middle of the morning and sets at a time between sunset and middle of the night.

3. FIRST QUARTER — usually rises at noon and sets in the middle of the night.

4. WAXING GIBBOUS — usually rises in the middle of the afternoon and sets at a time in between the middle of the night and sunrise.

5. FULL MOON — usually rises at sunset and then sets at sunrise.

6. WANING GIBBOUS — usually rises at a time between sunset and the middle of the night and later sets in the middle of the morning.

7. THIRD QUARTER — usually rises at the middle of the night and later sets at noon.

8. WANING CRESCENT — usually rises at a time in between the middle of the night.

As explained above therefore, you can see the moon in the middle of the morning as a waxing crescent and you can see it in the middle of the afternoon as a waxing gibbous, because it rises at those intervals respectively.