No. When you think about it, the highest appearance of the moon in the sky
has to take place during the Winter, in either hemisphere.
The moon's orbit is inclined to the ecliptic.
So the highest possible appearance is when the moon is
above the ecliptic AND when the ecliptic is high.
The moon is above the ecliptic for half of every lunar cycle ... 2 weeks out of every 4.
The ecliptic is high at night when it's low during the day ... i.e. in Winter.
One week after the full moon, the moon is in its third quarter phase. During this phase, the left half of the moon appears illuminated when viewed from the Northern Hemisphere, while the right half appears illuminated from the Southern Hemisphere. This is because the sunlight is shining on the opposite side of the moon compared to the full moon phase.
No. The one and only difference between the appearance of the moon in the north and its appearance in the south is that they are upside-down to one another. With the help of a friend, or something that you can safely lean backwards over, try this on a night when the moon is visible. Look at it in the normal way. Now turn so that you are looking directly behind you-- make a 180-degree turn. Now bend over backwards until you can see the moon. That's virtually how it appears to someone at the southern equivalent of your latitude (without the awkward stretch, of course).
All of the other phases can be seen after a New Moon, if you just wait long enough.The one that immediately follows the New Moon is the waxing crescent phase.
Full Moon. I think it could be more or less any phase. The phase of the Moon doesn't change much from moonrise until the Moon sets. True. But it is only the Full Moon that rises as the sun sets, and so is highest in the sky ... due south for northern-hemisphere observers ... at Midnight.
Known as "First Quarter". The moon appears half-illuminated. If you are in the Northern Hemisphere, it is the half you see to your RIGHT. The moon rises in the east at roughly Noon, and sets in the west at roughly Midnight.
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If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, the left side of the moon is illuminated. If you live in the Southern Hemisphere, the right side of the moon is illuminated. Regardless of hemisphere, the western half of the moon is illuminated during the waning moon phases.
If the moon is full today, in a week it will be in the last quarter phase. The lunar cycle progresses from full moon to last quarter over approximately a week, as the moon moves into a waning phase. This means it will appear as a half-moon, with the left side illuminated in the Northern Hemisphere.
If the Moon is in the southwestern sky at sunset, then you are in the northern hemisphere, and the Moon is in the waxing crescent phase. You can probably guess, within one day, how many days "old" the Moon is, in days after the new moon. If the Moon is straight south at sunset, then it was 7 days old at first quarter; if it was southwest, it was about 3-4 days past the new.
The first quarter moon is high in the sky at sunset, but for it to be high in the SOUTHERN sky tells us that you are in the northern hemisphere. In the southern hemisphere, the Sun and Moon pass NORTH of the observer.
No, the full moon can only be seen in one hemisphere at a time due to the position of the Earth and the moon relative to the observer. When it is a full moon in the northern hemisphere, it is a new moon in the southern hemisphere, and vice versa.
The First Quarter moon is one quarter day behind the sun. So when the sun sets, that particular moon phase is nominally where the sun was at Noon ... due south in the northern hemisphere, due north in the southern hemisphere.
No. The one and only difference between the appearance of the moon in the north and its appearance in the south is that they are upside-down to one another. With the help of a friend, or something that you can safely lean backwards over, try this on a night when the moon is visible. Look at it in the normal way. Now turn so that you are looking directly behind you-- make a 180-degree turn. Now bend over backwards until you can see the moon. That's virtually how it appears to someone at the southern equivalent of your latitude (without the awkward stretch, of course).
When the right half of the moon is illuminated it would be called first quarter. (That's when you see the Moon from the northern hemisphere.)
Also a FULL MOON. However, its height in the sky will be different.
James May commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landings, in the British documentary 'James May on the Moon' .
In the southern hemisphere, the moon appears differently from the northern hemisphere due to the different perspective caused by being in the opposite part of the Earth. Just like how you might see a tree from one angle and then it looks different from another, the moon may seem to tilt or stand differently in the sky when viewed from the southern hemisphere compared to the northern hemisphere. It's fascinating how our beautiful moon can branch out its different personalities depending on where we are in the world.