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  2. Moonrise and moonset - Wikipedia

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    A waxing gibbous Moon, rising over mountains with coniferous trees. The Moon's position relative to Earth and the Sun determines the moonrise and moonset time. For example, a last quarter rises at midnight and sets at noon. [5] A waning gibbous is best seen from late night to early morning. [6]

  3. Lunar observation - Wikipedia

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    Another interesting phenomenon visible with the naked eye is Earthshine. Best visible shortly before or after a new moon (during the waning and waxing crescent phases respectively), Earthshine is the faint glow of the non-illuminated (night) side of the Moon caused by sunlight reflecting off the surface of Earth (which would appear nearly full ...

  4. The Moon Phases Explained, From the New Moon to the ... - AOL

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    Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is no matter where we are in the lunar cycle. Here's how.

  5. Lunar phase - Wikipedia

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    The Moon then wanes as it passes through the gibbous moon, third-quarter moon, and crescent moon phases, before returning back to new moon. The terms old moon and new moon are not interchangeable. The "old moon" is a waning sliver (which eventually becomes undetectable to the naked eye) until the moment it aligns with the Sun and begins to wax ...

  6. Geminids - Wikipedia

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    10% waxing crescent: 2016 December 13 25 [25] 100% full moon: 2017 December 14 145 [26] 13% waning crescent: 2018 December 14 125 ± 9 [27] 41% waxing crescent: 2019 December 14 120 [28] 94% waning gibbous: 2020 December 13 120 [29] 2% waning crescent: 2021 December 13 125 ± 25 [30] 73% waxing gibbous: 2022 December 14 120 72% waning gibbous ...

  7. Kopernik Observatory & Science Center - Wikipedia

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    The Kopernik Observatory & Science Center (KOSC), is a public observatory in Vestal, New York opened to the public on June 16, 1974, by the Kopernik Society of Broome County to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (Polish: MikoĊ‚aj Kopernik) in 1973.

  8. Crescent - Wikipedia

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    When used to represent a waxing or waning lunar phase, "crescent" or "increscent" refers to the waxing first quarter, while the symbol representing the waning final quarter is called "decrescent". The crescent symbol was long used as a symbol of the Moon in astrology , and by extension of Silver (as the corresponding metal ) in alchemy . [ 4 ]

  9. List of variable stars - Wikipedia

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    As of 2017, there are over 52,011 known variable stars, [1] with more being discovered regularly, so a complete list of every single variable is impossible at this place (cf. GCVS). The following is a list of variable stars that are well-known, bright, significant, or otherwise interesting.