What is the reason why some nights you do not see the moon?

Answer 1

Yes, but it is not very well lit. It is there, but it is in the shadow of the rest of the moon so can't really be seen well. Sometimes the reflection of the Earth will cause the rest of the surface to be faintly visible to the naked eye. A strong telescope can provide additional visibility.

Answer 2

If we can't see the moon at all it is because it is on the side of the earth nearest to the sun. Sometimes you can see it during daylight, but at other times it is much harder to see, especially close to the time of a new moon.

Answer 3

If the moon is out 'in front' of the earth ... out in the direction of the sun ... then when you look up

at the moon, you see the side where the sun isn't shining on it.

The part where the sun IS shining on the moon is on the front of the moon, where you can't see it.

Answer 4

Some nights you don't see the moon for the following:

The moon orbits around the earth while the earth orbits around the sun. The moon gets its light from the sun light reflection and it is of less size than the earth and the sun. Accordingly, when the earth comes between the moon and the sun, the moon would have no light from the sun and hence you don't see it.

Answer 5

Not unless you were on the other side of the moon during the 'new moon' phase. The reason being, you cannot view the moon in the same light if it is not lit.

You can't readily see the new moon in the sky, because when the Moon is in that phase it is always near the Sun, and the Sun's light washes out the very faint doubly-reflected light that bounces off the Earth, then off the Moon, and finally back to Earth.

Answer 6

You will never see the whole moon from Earth, because one side of the moon is always facing away from us. But the "full" moon is when the sun is illuminating the entire side which faces toward us. During a "half" moon, the sun is illuminating one-half of the side facing us, and one-half of the side facing away from us.

Answer 7

The only day on which the Moon isn't visible at all is on the day of the "new" moon. The day before, you'd be able to see a thin crescent moon just above the horizon at sunrise; the day after, you would be able to see a thin crescent above the western horizon at sunset.

Answer 8

Duh, don't you ever look up at the sky? Yes, you can see the Moon at almost all phases, and it is especially easy to see at full moon, since then it is visible all night.

Duh, don't you ever look up at the sky? Yes, you can see the Moon at almost all phases, and it is especially easy to see at full moon, since then it is visible all night.

Duh, don't you ever look up at the sky? Yes, you can see the Moon at almost all phases, and it is especially easy to see at full moon, since then it is visible all night.

Duh, don't you ever look up at the sky? Yes, you can see the Moon at almost all phases, and it is especially easy to see at full moon, since then it is visible all night.

Answer 9

Interesting question.

The moon does not effect the wind speed and direction nearly as much as the sun, the rotation of the Earth, the continents and the oceans.

The moon does effect the tides of the oceans.

While both water and the air move easily when a force is applied, water weighs much more than air. In fact, a column of water 34 feet high would weigh just as much as a similar column of air 300,000 feet high.

In short, not having a moon would not change the wind speeds and directions that much.

Answer 10

There would be quite different high and low ocean tides. this might even have influenced the entire ecology of the planet and the development of species. It would be much darker most nights.
There wouldn't be any waves and there wouldn't be anything to light the night.
Tides would be lower and would happen at the same time every day.

It would be, on average, a little darker at night.

That's pretty much it.