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What is a first quarter?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

A first quarter moon rises at noon, is highest in the sky at sunset,

and sets around midnight.

We officially call this moon a quarter (even though we see half of its disk)

because it is one quarter of the way around in its orbit of earth, and one

quarter of a day behind the sun in the sky.

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