Which cyle is after the full moon?

Answer 1

That depends on what you mean by a "lunar year".

If you mean ne complete orbit of the moon around the Earth, that's 27.32 days.

If you mean one complete orbit of the moon around the sun, that's 365.24 days.

Answer 2

A lunar month consists of 28 days, during which each phase of the Moon is visible. The time between New Moon (dark) and Full Moon is 14 days : approximately 7 days from New Moon to First Quarter and 7 more from First Quarter to Full. Similarly, it is 7 days from Full Moon to Last Quarter and 7 more back down to New Moon. The time between consecutive appearances of the identical phase is always 28 days.

Answer 3

The lunar cycle is simply the movement of the Moon through all of its phases. There are eight lunar phases. The cycle goes from New Moon to New Moon. The lunar phases include the: new, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full, waning gibbous, last quarter, and waning crescent.

Answer 4

There's no tidy answer to that one, because some of the "phases" refer to

a moment in time, whereas others refer to a period of several days.

We can break it down for you like this:

Total length of one complete cycle of phases: 29.53 days.

Let's call the moment of New Moon "Time Zero". Then the other named phases

come along on the following schedule:

Waxing Crescent: Zero -- 7.38 days

First Quarter: 7.38 days

Waxing Gibbous: 7.38 -- 14.77 days

Full Moon: 14.77 days

Waning Gibbous: 14.77 -- 22.15 days

Third Quarter: 22.15 days

Waning Crescent: 22.15 -- 29.53 days

Next New Moon: 29.53 days

Answer 5

It's the time it takes the Moon to complete one cycle of its phases.

That's 29 days 12 hours 44 minutes.
The month was originally defined in term of the lunar cycle. "Lunar month" simply means a month according to the lunar (Moon) cycle, for example, the time from one new moon to the next.

Answer 6

The phases (the amount of the moon's surface that we see lit from Earth) of the moon are:

• New moon
• Waxing crescent moon
• First quarter moon
• Waxing gibbous moon
• Full moon
• Waning gibbous moon
• Third quarter moon
• Waning crescent moon
• Dark moon

Answer 7

The Moon orbits Earth every 27.3 days, while Earth orbits the Sun every 365.25 days. Those facts, combined with the fact that moonlight is actually reflection of Sunlight, this causes the Moon to take on different phases over a 29.5-day cycle.

Answer 8

This is a very interesting question.

First, understand that a year is a measurement of time that essentially harmonizes humans to the astronomical cycles of planet earth.

This means that solstices occur similarly, year after year, because the calendar year developed by humans matches the earth's circle-cycle around the sun.

(Other planets have year measurements, because other planets also circle around the sun and return to the same relative position in one year's time.)

Humans who travel to the moon follow the same calendar as the calendar on earth, without the essential astronomic benchmarks found on earth.


Since the moon revolves around the planet earth, it's possible that the moon's 'year' is the same as planet earth's, because of the commonly accepted planetary definition of the term 'year'.

You can read more, below.

Answer 9

Since ALL of the moon's phases repeat continuously in a never-ending cycle,
ALL phases come after Full Moon if you're willing to wait long enough.

The phase immediately after the Full Moon is the waning gibbous, lasting about a week.

Answer 10

The next phase after a full moon is the waning gibbous phase, where the illuminated portion of the moon decreases gradually until it reaches the last quarter moon.