Comments on: What is a waxing gibbous moon? https://earthsky.org/moon-phases/waxing-gibbous/ Updates on your cosmos and world Sun, 03 Sep 2023 13:49:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 By: Assessment 3 – Moon Phases – Joliet Junior College – Astronomy 101 class blog https://earthsky.org/moon-phases/waxing-gibbous/#comment-861180 Mon, 15 May 2023 04:02:44 +0000 https://208.96.63.114/?p=2449#comment-861180 […] article states that the waxing gibbous is visible from afternoon until after midnight. The waxing gibbous […]

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By: In September 2022, we’ll have a chance to see the Moon next to Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars. – Wake Up ETN https://earthsky.org/moon-phases/waxing-gibbous/#comment-861043 Thu, 08 Sep 2022 02:35:54 +0000 https://208.96.63.114/?p=2449#comment-861043 […] bright waxing gibbous moon passes by Saturn on the evenings of September 7 and 8, 2022. A waxing gibbous moon is one […]

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By: I Found a Rainbow At the End of My Hunt For a Vaccine Appointment – Encuentrodeblogsurales https://earthsky.org/moon-phases/waxing-gibbous/#comment-798599 Sun, 28 Mar 2021 11:06:11 +0000 https://208.96.63.114/?p=2449#comment-798599 […] telling people I was vaccinated at Hogwarts’ Manhattan campus under the waxing moon (it was a gibbous moon to be exact). How […]

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By: New top story from Time: I Found a Rainbow At the End of My Hunt For a Vaccine Appointment – The Richardsonian https://earthsky.org/moon-phases/waxing-gibbous/#comment-798598 Sun, 28 Mar 2021 10:48:25 +0000 https://208.96.63.114/?p=2449#comment-798598 […] telling people I was vaccinated at Hogwarts’ Manhattan campus under the waxing moon (it was a gibbous moon to be exact). How […]

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By: babybaby0 https://earthsky.org/moon-phases/waxing-gibbous/#comment-859809 Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:35:00 +0000 https://208.96.63.114/?p=2449#comment-859809 In reply to ArkhamAngel.

I think you’re confusing moon phases with lunar eclipses. A gibbous moon appears less than fully lighted because part of the moon’s surface is in the MOON’s shadow, not the earth’s. During a lunar eclipse, the edge of the directly illuminated part of the visible surface of the moon does, as you expect, always appear concave.

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By: Nerd https://earthsky.org/moon-phases/waxing-gibbous/#comment-859485 Tue, 02 Apr 2019 21:41:00 +0000 https://208.96.63.114/?p=2449#comment-859485 In reply to Name.

Waxing means that it is getting bigger. Gibbous refers to the shape, which is less than the full circle of a Full Moon, but larger than the semicircle shape of the Moon at Third Quarter

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By: Name https://earthsky.org/moon-phases/waxing-gibbous/#comment-854695 Wed, 17 Oct 2018 21:22:00 +0000 https://208.96.63.114/?p=2449#comment-854695 Why do they call it the waxing Gibbous?

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By: Name https://earthsky.org/moon-phases/waxing-gibbous/#comment-854694 Wed, 17 Oct 2018 21:21:00 +0000 https://208.96.63.114/?p=2449#comment-854694 hi

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By: Peter Lowenstein https://earthsky.org/moon-phases/waxing-gibbous/#comment-854096 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:20:00 +0000 https://208.96.63.114/?p=2449#comment-854096 Waxing Gibbous Moon with Hornbill

At 5.45 on the evening of 17 September I was flat on my back on my Mutare garden lawn taking some hand-held shots of the Waxing Gibbous Moon which was directly overhead when a pair of chanting hornbills flew past. Was lucky to catch one of them with the Moon. Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 in sunset scene mode.
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By: drbobjr https://earthsky.org/moon-phases/waxing-gibbous/#comment-849246 Mon, 02 Apr 2018 22:36:00 +0000 https://208.96.63.114/?p=2449#comment-849246 In reply to ArkhamAngel.

Take a ball and a flashlight into a dark room. Hold the ball arms length directly in front of you. Now shine the flashlight on the ball while holding the flashlight above your head and off to the right. Look familiar? The picture above shows moon when the sun is behind you, above and to the right of your view of the moon. If the Earth were casting a shadow on the moon (an eclipse), the curve of the edge of the shadow in the above picture would be opposite; the curve of the edge of the shadow would bend INTO the moon, not AWAY from the center. Hope that helps!

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