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  2. Lunar effect - Wikipedia

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    Biologists as well as artists and poets have long thought about the Moon's influence on living creatures. The lunar effect is a purported correlation between specific stages of the roughly 29.5-day lunar cycle and behavior and physiological changes in living beings on Earth, including humans. A considerable number of studies have examined the ...

  3. Moonrise and moonset - Wikipedia

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    The Moon appears to be more yellowish near the horizon. This is for the same reason the Sun and/or sky appears to be orangey-red at sunrise/sunset. When the Moon appears near the horizon, the light coming from it has to pass through more layers of atmosphere. This scatters the blue away, and leaves yellow, orange, and red. [10]

  4. Earthrise - Wikipedia

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    Earthrise, taken on December 24, 1968, by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders. Earthrise is a photograph of Earth and part of the Moon's surface that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission.

  5. Why the full moon that’s set to rise is the supermoon to watch

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    The hunter’s moon is the first full moon after the autumnal equinox, which occurred on September 22 this year. The lunar event marks the changing of the seasons.

  6. December full moon: Rare ‘cold moon’ set to rise for last ...

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    The last full moon of the year will rise overnight in a rare “major lunar standstill” amid a dazzling meteor shower. The “cold moon” - a phenomenon that happens every 18.6 years - will ...

  7. Moon - Wikipedia

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    The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.It orbits at an average distance of 384,400 km (238,900 mi), about 30 times the diameter of Earth. Tidal forces between Earth and the Moon have synchronized the Moon's orbital period (lunar month) with its rotation period at 29.5 Earth days, causing the same side of the Moon to always face Earth.

  8. A blue moon is about to rise, and it won't happen again until ...

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    The blue moon that most people have heard about occurs when there are two full moons in a calendar month, a phenomenon that happens once every two or three years. ... After Monday, the fourth and ...

  9. Timekeeping on the Moon - Wikipedia

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    Timekeeping on the Moon is an issue of synchronized human activity on the Moon and contact with such. The two main differences to timekeeping on Earth is the length of a day on the Moon, being the lunar day or lunar month, observable from Earth as the lunar phases, and the differences between Earth and the Moon of how differently fast time progresses, with 24 hours on the Moon being 58.7 ...