new moon
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Just a second ... let me look ... Right now it's a waning crescent, just a few days before New Moon. (8:00 PM CST, March 10, 2010)
Right now ... January 12, 2010 ... the moon is in the late waning phases everywhere. "New Moon" will occur on Friday 1/15, and the moon will then begin to 'grow' again. Everybody, everywhere on earth, sees the same moon phase on the same date.
The right half of the moon is illuminated.
If you're talking about the 'phases' of the moon, then: Everybody on the earth sees the same phase of the moon on the same date. Technically, the phase of the moon is always changing ... five minutes from now, the illuminated section will be slightly bigger or slightly smaller than it is right now. But in a practical sense, we usually don't notice any difference until we see the moon again several hours later. So it's essentially accurate to say that anybody on earth who looks at the moon within the next few hours ... whenever it appears in the sky wherever they are ... will see the same phase as you see right now.
Third quarter moon
by the phase of the moon
If tonight the phase of the moon is full when it rises what will be the phase 4 days from now is in the waning gibbous stage.
Definitely. Whatever phase the moon is in right now this minute, it'll be in exactly that same one 29.531 days from right now.
wanning gibbious.
Just a second ... let me look ... Right now it's a waning crescent, just a few days before New Moon. (8:00 PM CST, March 10, 2010)
waxing cresent.
Right now ... January 12, 2010 ... the moon is in the late waning phases everywhere. "New Moon" will occur on Friday 1/15, and the moon will then begin to 'grow' again. Everybody, everywhere on earth, sees the same moon phase on the same date.
Anybody at all, whether he's an astronomer, a politician, or a plumber, who takes the trouble to look at the moon, will see the same phase 29.531 days from right now that he sees right now.
The moon phase that occurs after sunset and before sunrise is the waxing crescent. This phase appears as a thin sliver of light on the right side of the moon. It is considered the beginning phase of the lunar cycle.
full moon
The right half of the moon is illuminated.
It was a waxing gibbous, but right after a First-quarter moon.