How often can the sun and moon be seen at the same time?

Answer 1

Seven times.

Answer 2

7 times 7 days in a week sun comes up one time

Answer 3

The sun and moon can be seen at the same time during a specific period known as a "solar eclipse." This occurs when the moon passes between the sun and Earth, casting a shadow on Earth. Depending on the geographical location, solar eclipses can occur a few times a year.

Answer 4

The Moon rises about 50 minutes later every day.

The answer depends on your frame of reference.

The entire solar system is being carried around our galaxy (the Milky Way) at a very great velocity so that with respect to nearby galaxies the moon is never in the same place as previously.

With respect to an observer on a nearby planet (Venus or Mars) eventually the moon will be in the same position relative to the Earth.

I believe it takes about 19 years for the Moon to appear with the same phase in the same position relative to the stars for an observer on Earth.

Answer 5

About half of the time.

The Moon's orbit isn't parallel to the Equator, nor to the ecliptic; some times the Moon is north of the equator (and visible from the North Pole) and sometimes it is south of the equator and NOT visible from the north pole. (However, at those times it would be visible from the SOUTH pole.)

Answer 6

The sun has never come between the Earth and moon, and isn't expected to ever

do so.

In fact, the diameter of the sun (distance across it through the middle) is almost

four times as far as the distance from Earth to the moon.

The sun never gets closer to the Earth or moon than about 93 million miles away.

Answer 7

Yes and no. The sun and moon rise and set together at the time of New Moon, plus a day or so

before and after that time. But at those times, it's almost impossible to see the moon, because

we're looking at its dark side, and it's so close to the bright sun in the sky.

Answer 8

No. Only half the earth can see any of the moon at one time. This is a bit like the sun - there is always some part of the earth which is on the other side of the earth to the place directly below the moon.

Answer 9

That depends where the astronaut is located. If he is in low-Earth-orbit, the spacecraft goes around Earth once every one-and-a-half hours, and he would basically see the sunrise once for every orbit (actually once more every 24 hours, if the spacecraft goes eastward, which is the normal situation).

Answer 10

once

___________

We have here the mystery of the continuous vs the discrete. At any given location on earth between the arctic and antarctic circles, there is as answered above one and only one sunrise per day, never more, never fewer. From this point of view we can tally sunrises as discrete events. The same is true of sunsets. But the reality is that every single moment of every day, without stop, the sun is continuously rising from someone's point of view, and it is also continuously setting. So you have to be clear whether you are talking about sunrises relative to one fixed point on earth, or sunrise from the point of view of the entire planet.