How do use the moon movement and phases to tell time?

Answer 1

The whole Moon is there all the time. The phases of "quarter," "crescent" and so forth describe the part of the Moon on which sunlight is falling. When the Moon is on the opposite side of the Earth as the Sun (in other words, in a line of Sun - Earth - Moon), the sunlit side is the same as the side an observer on Earth sees, so the Moon is "full." When the Moon and Sun are on the same side (Sun - Moon - Earth), the lighted side is the side facing away from Earth, and the Moon is dark, or "New." In first and third "quarters," the Sun and Moon form a right angle (a "corner") with the Earth, as when somebody stands with a single light source near his ear and his face is half in the light.

Answer 2

The phase of the moon can in principle tell you where the Sun is, and that in turn can tell you what time it is.

However, most people don't do that, and instead just use the moon's phases to count the days. The moon completes a full cycle of phases in just about a month.

Answer 3

When the earth spins on its axis, and the part that you live on has its back

turned to the sun, you can almost always can see the moon, right? The sun's

light is reflected off the moon to the Earth. While the moon orbits, sometimes

the moon is to the west of the Earth and sometimes to the east. This

creates the different ways of the moon's shape.

Answer 4

You can use the movement and phases of the moon to estimate the time by observing its position in the sky. For example, if you see the moon rising in the east at midnight, it may indicate that it is roughly halfway through its nightly journey. You can also use the moon's changing phases to roughly track the passage of time, as each phase cycle lasts about 29.5 days.

Answer 5

You can use the moon to tell time because there is one month between each full moon.

Hope I helped!