Waxing Moon Over Florida
by D Hackett
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Waxing Moon Over Florida
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D Hackett
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Photograph - Digital
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Waxing Moon Over Florida by D Hackett
This beautiful waxing moon was over my backyard when I arrived home. I took this photograph of the moon while it was just above the trees, making a silhouette skyline.
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Waxing Moon
Once you understand those four key moon phases, the phases between should be fairly easy to visualize, as the illuminated portion gradually transitions between them.
An easy way to remember and understand those "between" lunar phase names is by breaking out and defining 4 words: crescent, gibbous, WAXING, and waning. The word crescent refers to the phases where the moon is less than half illuminated. The word gibbous refers to phases where the moon is more than half illuminated. WAXING essentially means "growing" or expanding in illumination, and waning means "shrinking" or decreasing in illumination.
Thus you can simply combine the two words to create the phase name, as follows:
After the new moon, the sunlit portion is increasing, but less than half, so it is waxing crescent. After the first quarter, the sunlit portion is still increasing, but now it is more than half, so it is WAXING GIBBOUS. After the full moon (maximum illumination), the light continually decreases. So the waning gibbous phase occurs next. Following the third quarter is the waning crescent, which wanes until the light is completely gone -- a new moon.
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