Phases of the Moon

A quick representation depicting the phases of the Moon. Inset shows the Moon as seen from the Earth. This does not represent accurate scale or distances.

© 2006 Kevin Capizzi. Created in Cinema4D.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Moon
• Phases
• Earth
• Sun
• Solar
• System
• Science
• Space
• New
• Quarter
• Gibbous
• Full

[Cosmored]

Sorry to go a little off-topic but--

There's a mountain of evidence that the moon missions were faked. I posted a partial summary of it on a science forum. Google "The Naked Scientists". In the "New Theories" section of the forum there's a thread entitled "Did We Land on the Moon?". The summary is on page 15. It's the 7th post from the top.

People who still think they went to the moon simply haven't seen the hoax evidence yet.

[cmykev]

You're an incredible idiot.

[megastarling]

great job, but the Earth should spin 28 times faster :-)

[cmykev]

Don't you mean 29.5 times? ;)

[1maxsilk1]

How can it be full moon when the earth is blocking the sun to the face of the moon?

[cmykev]

We're looking at the moon and earth from the top, down. The shadow the earth casts, relatively speaking, is small. And the moon rarely lines up with it just right so that the earth blocks the light of the sun, during fullness. However, there are times where the earth's shadow does block the light, and this is called a lunar eclipse (just had one recently). So, as you can see, lunar eclipses can only take place when the moon is full.

[rezz110]

Moon's orbit is not vertically aligned with earth; if it was, every months we would experience both lunar and solar eclipses. But we don't. That's because moon's orbit is tilted. Also, sometimes you feel moon is up high in sky and sometimes closer- further down to earth. This is again because of the tilt in Moon's orbit but also depends on your geographical location.

[Cosmored]

@Tylerserra

I've never seen them proved wrong. Why don't you come over to this thead and we can debate the evidence?

spurstalk (dot) com/forums/showthread (dot) php?t=144487

(check link for gaps)

[Tylerserra]

@Cosmored but all of your theories were proved wrong

[Wolfluver119]

Thanks for posting this helped me understand it alot better :D

[Wolfluver119]

@cmykev A-MEN! xD

[StuffofGenius]

This finally made me understand how it exactly works!!

[StuffofGenius]

@cmykev Seriously?

[egunduz]

This is a great video to show the moon's revolution and changing phases BUT, it is slightly inaccurate and would be better if the earth rotated at it's actual rate of 27 1/3 times per one moon revolution :)

[arsenal144]

@rudeblood1

It may or may not be an eclipse depending on the elevation of the moon with respect to the plane in which the earth and sun lie.