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Which moon phase comes first?

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Anonymous

9y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

They're cyclic, so which one comes "first" depends on where you define the start point. One easy way to remember it is that the lighted portion of the moon looks like the letters DOC in that order (with the new moon occuring at both the beginning and end of that sequence).

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