Why cant you see the moon on a clear night?

Answer 1

Because the clouds cover it. Basically, the cloud cover can be dense enough so that the clouds scatter all or most of the light from the sun. The scatter of light is why you still experience day time on a cloudy day; the clouds do not absorb every bit of light from the sun.

Answer 2

The moon goes through "phases". Sometimes the moon is opposite the sun, other times it's on the same side of the earth as the sun. During THAT time you won't be able to see the moon at night. You will also not be able to see it if it has not yet risen or if it has already set. Some believe that the moon is always in the night sky. That is not the case.

Answer 3

Basically, you can't see the moon when it is below the horizon. So at those times when the moon is visible to you during the day, it will probably not be visible to you that night. Very near the time of new moon, the moon is by definition closer to the sun and will be difficult if not impossible to observe with the naked eye.

Answer 4

On a clear night, the moon may not be visible because it is below the horizon or in a different phase (like a new moon), making it too faint to see. Additionally, light pollution or atmospheric conditions such as clouds can obstruct visibility.

Answer 5

Because that is why it is day. At night, the Sun is not visible - that is why it is dark!

The sun delivers a lot of light to earth, and all that all the light scatters in our atmosphere to make it extremely bright. It's so bright that the tiny stars, which are still up there, cannot be seen.

Answer 6

You can't see stars on the moon because there are none there.

But if you're on the moon and taking pictures from it, there are many thousands to see

and photograph at any time. The sight is totally dazzling, with no atmosphere in the way,

and the stars don't twinkle.

There were about 200 pictures of the stars taken during the Apollo lunar landings- most people don't know about them since all the pictures showing the astronauts and lunar surface (the pics people actually see on TV, books, magazines, and on the Net) are not these same pictures. These pictures were taken with a camera that could not see brightly lit things like astronauts, and dimly lit things like stars, at the same time. Since these are the pics most important to the Apollo mission, many people honestly think none of the Apollo lunar surface pics show stars- but they are just plain wrong.

Answer 7

During the new moon phase, light from the Sun can only reach the side of the Moon that is facing away from us, as the Moon at this point is roughly between the Sun and Earth. During this time, the Moon and Sun rise and set at about the same time of day, and so are in the sky together, with the Moon being too dark to see. Occasionally the Sun, Moon and Earth will be perfectly aligned during the new moon phase for a few minutes, resulting in a solar eclipse (the unlit "disk" of the Moon can be seen passing in front of the Sun). New moon is the first phase of the lunar cycle, with the visible moon getting fuller (waxing) eventually becoming a full moon and then getting thinner (waning) to the next new moon. The process starts all over again, taking 29.5 days to complete its cycle.

Answer 8

You can see the Moon, sometimes during the day, sometimes at night. Whenever it is abover the horizon (and it is not too cloudy or something). The Moon rises about 50 minutes earlier every day.

You can see the Moon, sometimes during the day, sometimes at night. Whenever it is abover the horizon (and it is not too cloudy or something). The Moon rises about 50 minutes earlier every day.

You can see the Moon, sometimes during the day, sometimes at night. Whenever it is abover the horizon (and it is not too cloudy or something). The Moon rises about 50 minutes earlier every day.

You can see the Moon, sometimes during the day, sometimes at night. Whenever it is abover the horizon (and it is not too cloudy or something). The Moon rises about 50 minutes earlier every day.

Answer 9

It has to do with the cycles of the moon. When there is a new moon, only people on the other side of the earth can see it. The moon cycles happen from the sun's light reflecting on the surface of the moon, also the position of Earth compared to the moon.

Answer 10

The time it takes for the moon to revolve around Earth is 28 days. The time it takes for the moon to rotate is 28 days. Therefore, you only see one side of the moon.

Note: It is probably best not to think of the far side of the moon as 'dark'. It may not seem intuitively obvious, but if you could observe conditions on the far side, you would have the same experiences of lunar day and lunar night as you would on the visible side. You would just have them at different times, just as day and night time happen at different times for different places on earth. Until the very recent past, calling it 'the dark side' reflected the fact that we had no way of observing that part of the moon.