The appearance and disappearance of the moon has boggled my mind for years and in just 15 minutes you have clarified for me everything about the phases of the moon. Thank you.
Exactly what i searching. Other chanels are just showing the phases in a very general way. This helped me clear a lot of confusion. Thank you very much for this.
Can anyone explain to me at 13:53 before sunrise why the dark side of the moon is in the bottom right. Shouldn’t it be in the top right as the sun is still under the horizon. I noticed the exact same thing this morning before sunrise. Same question at 12:38. Seems the dark side of the moon is not where it should be based on where the sun is?
Because it's a waning gibbous after full moon. Remember xDOCx, x is new moon, waxing quarter is a D 🌓, waning quarter is a C 🌗 which before hand is 🌖 and before that is 🌕. Because the sunny side is shifting away from our view. x D O C x 🌑 🌓 🌕 🌗 🌑 So what you're referring to is the first one to the right of the full moon here: 🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑 🌑 🌒 🌓 🌔 🌕 🌖 🌗 🌘 🌑 Full moon sets around sunrise and rises around sunset. 6/12/6/12 .........Midnight 18/6pm 🜨 06/6am .............Noon (Give or take 3 hrs) 1: Rise 2: Zenith 3: Set New moon 🌑 3🜨1 .. 2 Waxing quarter 🌓D ...3 2🜨 ...1 Full moon 🌕 ...2 1🜨3 Waning quarter 🌗C 1 🜨2 3
This is what I call quality content. "No Gibberish", "No none sense word play to sound smart" but approaching the entire situation with careful analytical perspective and dissecting it properly. Superb !!!
I’m 44 years old and as I saw the crescent moon tonight I began to question again what I thought I understood as to why the moon has its phases. Thank you for your video as it has clarified a lot for me.
The visual storytelling in this video was truly exceptional. The attention to detail in showcasing the transitions from the waxing crescent to the full moon and then to the waning crescent was simply breathtaking.
FINALLY I fully understand! Now I see why I only observe crescent moons near the horizon at night and why the moon is often visible in the day. Awesome, thanks!!!
A great explanation of the movement of our bright and wonderful Moon. I tell people that if you were on the Moon, you would see a "night and day" (one axial rotation) on the Moon in about 27.3 Earth days, whereas on Earth, a "night and day" (one axial rotation) is within 24 hours. Thank you again for your clear explanations.
It's moving counter clockwise to everyone on earth, it's only because of earths rotation towards the east that makes it seem like it is moving from east to west.
That actual footage is priceless educational material! Was just curious about phases of the moon and searched it up, there is no clearer explanation out there! I like how at such a high speed timelapse it ACTUALLY looks like we're spinning instead of the sun going around the earth😂
I’m in love with this video! Thank you for your clear and full explanation AND the great models and videos of the sun and moon. I understand so much more!
Wow finally someone, YOU, explained this with images so I can understand what is actually going on. I am very curious what differences there are in the Southern hemisphere and how the light of the moon at different phases may or may not affect the growth of plants.
Greetings. Chilean here. I cannot tell anything about plants, but the Moon phases here are both the same and different. They are the same as they happen in the exact same way and at the exact same time, but they look different. You see the phases in this order: 🌑🌒🌓🌕🌗🌘🌑 Whereas we see them like this: 🌑🌘🌗🌕🌓🌒🌑 Because we see the Moon from the other side. We both watch the Sun and the Moon rising in the East and setting in the West. But you look to the South to see them, and watch them going from left to right. We look to the North, and watch them going from right to left. Thinking tridimensionally is hard! 😄
Wow!!! I have been curious and watched a lot of documentation but did not how moon revolve nor rotate around the earth but this explained it more and more for ...kudos bro. I commend you.. Thanks so much I got a better understanding of it now...
This was great! My class really enoyed it, however we caught something at 6.43 where you labeled the moon WANING gibbous correctly, but you said WAXING gibbous. My students wanted to share this with you. Thank you!! :)
Yeah, it's a little confusing at first, but try this out: Go outside and face south. North is behind you, East is to your left and West is to your right. Now look up at the sky. Which way is East?
Because in the northern hemisphere the ecliptic, and so therefore the sun, is always more south, especially in the winter when the north pole is titled away from the sun (so therefore the ecliptic and sun is lower on thr north hemisphere horizon). Look for Orions feet to find south. Facing south, west is right and east is left.
Hello there! I have a quick question, im making a video for a school project and i want to use a clip from your video. I won't post this video on youtube or anything like that and i will give you full credit, would this be ok?
The best demonstration of moon phases graphically 👍👍 By the way, it is this simple, roughly: the 1st half of the lunar cycle is when the moon chases the sun (closer and closer), whereas the 2nd half is the opposite: the sun chases the moon. When the sun catch up the moon, then a new cycle begins ... Wondering how it is different millions of years ago.
Thank you so much for your work. This question was bugging me for a week now how moon transition between phases and you explained it nicely with animations.
At about 4 minutes into the video, you show two sets of moons; one set small inside and one larger set out the outside. The inside set are highlighted with yellow. What does this set represent? It is confusing to me. Thanks!
The inside set shows how the far side (which I colored gold) always faces away from Earth while the near side (which I left uncolored) always faces Earth at all times in its orbit. The outer set shows the phases of the Moon as seen from Earth.
That was a really good explanation about the phases of the moon, i didn’t know we always look at the same side of the moon. So that was something new, the use of the animations were so good to understand better what’s is really going on, thank you sr, and it could be a nice theme of conversation. Keep doing well.
Can someone kindly explain how is it that the earth does not block the moon from being illuminated on the full moon phase? On the illustrations it appears that the moon should be in Earth's shadow during the full moon phase. Thanks for your help!
@@clightning300mi _the only living being affected by man made pseudoscientific laws is mankind itself._ _nature doesn’t bother herself with perverted man made theories about the phases of the moon, and everything else._ _nature simply ignores all those pseudoscientific self anointed intellectuals, and continues her path as it always has been, and as it always will be._
there are near and far sides of the moon, the near sides have dark spots on the moon while the far sides have highland regions the moon also has a synchronus rotation the far side is hidden from our view from earth we can also only see a portion of the moon. Moon phases depend on where the moon is with respect to the sun in space. The moon takes about a month to orbit the Earth. Although the moon rises in the east and sets in the west each day (due to Earth’s spin), it’s also moving on the sky’s dome each day due to its own motion in orbit around Earth. The moon’s orbital motion is toward the east. Each day, as the moon moves another 12 to 13 degrees toward the east on the sky’s dome, Earth has to rotate a little longer to bring you around to where the moon is in space.
If I was standing on the moon would it be true that during the 27.3 day orbit around the earth i would be in almost complete darkness for approximately 6.8 days and in almost complete light for the same time for each of the orbits around earth
What? How can earth reflect it's shadow towards the sun if the sun is what casts the light? On a new moon/dark moon, the moon is in between the earth and sun. On a waxing crescent 🌒 (like a letter D. If x is new moon it goes xDOCx, so remember DOC), the moon slightly shifted so some of the sun light now shines on the part we see. It's still generally between us and the sun until it's at a 90° angle on quarter/half moons (hence neap tides). The earth shadow gets casted in the opposite direction of the sun, not towards the sun
The ancients used a lunisolar calendar. Whenever the full moon ended, a new month began. As I type this, the moon is no longer full, and December has ended in the lunarsolar calendar.
I thought the graphics/animate models you used very helpful and easy to follow. This all helps make astronomy fun and easily digested, which is paramount to making folks realise that EVERYONE is or can be excited about space and astronomy..👍😃👍
You have finally solved a question I had since I was a kid: Why sometimes can I see the moon during the day? My parents used to say that it was just an ilusion haha that the light somehow bounced or something 😂 Thank you so much!
I don't get it..I am going to try and find another video that I can understand..I know the moon completes some kind of 23 year cycle then another cycle every hundreds of thousands of years..
We see both crescent and waning moon both during daytime *and* night, at different hours and in different days of the month, depending on its phase. We *never* see the full moon during daytime. Only for a short time, when the Sun is just set, there is still some sunset light and the Moon is rising, only then you could say you see the Moon when still is daytime - but it is sunset, no broad daylight. If you see the Moon during daytime, look carefully, you'll see it is not full. Just wait until sunset, and you'll realize it is not actually full, but crescent. The Moon cannot change its phase in the course of a few hours. Watch the Moon every day and every night. The explanation in this video is correct, but accelerated. Everything that here takes seconds, in reality it takes days.
@@kitcanyon658 at 3 am during a full moon in canada I phoned a friend I know in Australia. He said he saw it in his north east window when the sun was up.
@@clightning300mi You seem to have doubts about whether the explanation given in this video is correct? Perhaps then, you can offer your own alternative explanation as to what causes the phases of the moon? Incidentally, when there is a very thin crescent moon, the unlit part of the moon's surface can actually be seen, as it is lit by 'earth shine', the exact thing that you claim should happen, as if it doesn't.
Best explanation I’ve seen. But explain, please, why the full moon bring the highest tide? Because we know that the moon is always there, even when it’s got phases that we see, so it’s not as if the gravitational force on the seas changes.
Thanks! The tides are strongest at both full and new phases because the Sun's tidal forces add to the Moon's. I talk about that in a little more detail here: ua-cam.com/video/1DqsvRrzL-c/v-deo.html
@@LaunchPadAstronomy Thanks a lot for that. It’s something I’ve never understood and no other astronomers have been able or willing to attempt an answer...
The appearance and disappearance of the moon has boggled my mind for years and in just 15 minutes you have clarified for me everything about the phases of the moon. Thank you.
Bro u don’t need a . why do people do this
This is mind-blowing! Thank you for this presentation. I am watching it over and over again.
This seriously deserves an award. Many thanks sir.
Thank you!
Another award from Greece 🙏🙏
Wonderful, thank you. Really helped our daughter ahead of a test later in the week.
Exactly what I was hoping to find!
Exactly what i searching. Other chanels are just showing the phases in a very general way. This helped me clear a lot of confusion. Thank you very much for this.
The best most understandable demonstration yet! Thanks
Can anyone explain to me at 13:53 before sunrise why the dark side of the moon is in the bottom right. Shouldn’t it be in the top right as the sun is still under the horizon.
I noticed the exact same thing this morning before sunrise.
Same question at 12:38. Seems the dark side of the moon is not where it should be based on where the sun is?
And clearly, your interpretation of what you're observing is wrong.
Because it's a waning gibbous after full moon. Remember xDOCx, x is new moon, waxing quarter is a D 🌓, waning quarter is a C 🌗 which before hand is 🌖 and before that is 🌕. Because the sunny side is shifting away from our view.
x
D
O
C
x
🌑
🌓
🌕
🌗
🌑
So what you're referring to is the first one to the right of the full moon here:
🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑
🌑
🌒
🌓
🌔
🌕
🌖
🌗
🌘
🌑
Full moon sets around sunrise and rises around sunset.
6/12/6/12
.........Midnight
18/6pm 🜨 06/6am
.............Noon
(Give or take 3 hrs)
1: Rise
2: Zenith
3: Set
New moon 🌑
3🜨1
.. 2
Waxing quarter 🌓D
...3
2🜨
...1
Full moon 🌕
...2
1🜨3
Waning quarter 🌗C
1
🜨2
3
Thank you. This was so helpful and exactly what I was looking for
This is what I call quality content. "No Gibberish", "No none sense word play to sound smart" but approaching the entire situation with careful analytical perspective and dissecting it properly. Superb !!!
I’m 44 years old and as I saw the crescent moon tonight I began to question again what I thought I understood as to why the moon has its phases. Thank you for your video as it has clarified a lot for me.
one of the best videos/explanations available online, too less views and likes for such a great quality video!
navneet Kumar I totally agree with you
The visual storytelling in this video was truly exceptional. The attention to detail in showcasing the transitions from the waxing crescent to the full moon and then to the waning crescent was simply breathtaking.
Excellent demonstration!
Such a nice presentation.... Keep posting these kind of informative stuff.....Thank you!!
Thanks!
FINALLY I fully understand! Now I see why I only observe crescent moons near the horizon at night and why the moon is often visible in the day. Awesome, thanks!!!
Excellent, I'm glad it helped!
6/12/6/12
.........Midnight
18/6pm 🜨 06/6am
.............Noon
(Give or take 3 hrs)
1: Rise
2: Zenith
3: Set
New moon 🌑
3🜨1
.. 2
Waxing quarter 🌓D
...3
2🜨
...1
Full moon 🌕
...2
1🜨3
Waning quarter 🌗C
1
🜨2
3
Wow this is an incredible video. Thank you so much for explaining and visualising all the phases, especially the synodic vs sidereal.
Finally! The answers i was looking for
Just Wow! Always been intrigued, never had it explained this deep and clear. Bravo Mate
A great explanation of the movement of our bright and wonderful Moon. I tell people that if you were on the Moon, you would see a "night and day" (one axial rotation) on the Moon in about 27.3
Earth days, whereas on Earth, a "night and day" (one axial rotation) is within 24 hours. Thank you again for your clear explanations.
This was an excellent video showing and explaining the phases of the moon and what we are seeing...thank you for this content!❤
You should get an award for this!
Excellent...thank you for making this process easier to understand.!!
This video was so helpful in understanding the moon phases. Excellent work.
it is cartwheeling clockwise in the N Hemi
💯💯
It's moving counter clockwise to everyone on earth, it's only because of earths rotation towards the east that makes it seem like it is moving from east to west.
That actual footage is priceless educational material! Was just curious about phases of the moon and searched it up, there is no clearer explanation out there!
I like how at such a high speed timelapse it ACTUALLY looks like we're spinning instead of the sun going around the earth😂
Is it me or the last part was so satisfying????? Love the moon
I’m in love with this video! Thank you for your clear and full explanation AND the great models and videos of the sun and moon. I understand so much more!
I'm so happy you enjoyed it, and thank you for the kind comment!
Awesome! Thank you for the time and effort put into this.
This video is amazing! Thank you so much!
Wow finally someone, YOU, explained this with images so I can understand what is actually going on. I am very curious what differences there are in the Southern hemisphere and how the light of the moon at different phases may or may not affect the growth of plants.
Greetings. Chilean here. I cannot tell anything about plants, but the Moon phases here are both the same and different.
They are the same as they happen in the exact same way and at the exact same time, but they look different. You see the phases in this order:
🌑🌒🌓🌕🌗🌘🌑
Whereas we see them like this:
🌑🌘🌗🌕🌓🌒🌑
Because we see the Moon from the other side. We both watch the Sun and the Moon rising in the East and setting in the West. But you look to the South to see them, and watch them going from left to right. We look to the North, and watch them going from right to left.
Thinking tridimensionally is hard! 😄
i love learning about moon
Nice explanation
you explained it very simply and clearly, thanks
You did a fantastic job explaining something I have always wanted to understand. Thank you so very much!!!
Oh my god this video is so freakin good
Glad you enjoyed it!
Extremely helpful visualizations. Wonderful talk. Thank you sir!
Amazing explanation of the topic 👍
very clear explanation, thanks for the video!
Excellent video!! Brilliant explanation! Thank you!
Great teacher!
Wow, thank you!
This video should be used in science classes. Awesome job!
Excellent illustration and easily understood. Very informative
Thank you!
Wow!!! I have been curious and watched a lot of documentation but did not how moon revolve nor rotate around the earth but this explained it more and more for ...kudos bro. I commend you.. Thanks so much I got a better understanding of it now...
This was great! My class really enoyed it, however we caught something at 6.43 where you labeled the moon WANING gibbous correctly, but you said WAXING gibbous. My students wanted to share this with you. Thank you!! :)
I still cant figure out why you put East at left and West at the right?
Yeah, it's a little confusing at first, but try this out: Go outside and face south. North is behind you, East is to your left and West is to your right. Now look up at the sky. Which way is East?
@@LaunchPadAstronomy makes sense, thanks for your reply.
Because in the northern hemisphere the ecliptic, and so therefore the sun, is always more south, especially in the winter when the north pole is titled away from the sun (so therefore the ecliptic and sun is lower on thr north hemisphere horizon). Look for Orions feet to find south.
Facing south, west is right and east is left.
Hello there! I have a quick question, im making a video for a school project and i want to use a clip from your video. I won't post this video on youtube or anything like that and i will give you full credit, would this be ok?
Very informative thank you!
Glad you found it helpful!
The best demonstration of moon phases graphically 👍👍
By the way, it is this simple, roughly: the 1st half of the lunar cycle is when the moon chases the sun (closer and closer), whereas the 2nd half is the opposite: the sun chases the moon. When the sun catch up the moon, then a new cycle begins ... Wondering how it is different millions of years ago.
Thank you so much for your work. This question was bugging me for a week now how moon transition between phases and you explained it nicely with animations.
Great video, it's more than I expected 👏💯
Wonderful ! Very educational for both adults and kids :) thank you 🙏 ❤
Superb and educating video
Many thanks, very helpful to understand the phases of the Moon
awesome video, i will have to save and watch a few more times to get a full grip on your explanation. well done .thanks for some quality education
Great video. I would like to see some graphics to explain why the Moon rises in widely different locations on the horizon in only a few days.
At about 4 minutes into the video, you show two sets of moons; one set small inside and one larger set out the outside. The inside set are highlighted with yellow. What does this set represent? It is confusing to me. Thanks!
The inside set shows how the far side (which I colored gold) always faces away from Earth while the near side (which I left uncolored) always faces Earth at all times in its orbit.
The outer set shows the phases of the Moon as seen from Earth.
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Thanks again
That was a really good explanation about the phases of the moon, i didn’t know we always look at the same side of the moon. So that was something new, the use of the animations were so good to understand better what’s is really going on, thank you sr, and it could be a nice theme of conversation. Keep doing well.
Dude where were you at not knowing the moon was always facing one side?
Soooo fascinating
Thank you. I’ve never seen this so clearly. Sort of blew my mind I didn’t know this. 😞😊
Amazing video!
I Lionel this video it was awesome helpful
this really needed for my school project im from allen
...👍 ' great video.
Is “light gradually be added to the face of the moon” or do we just see “snapshots” without a gradual increase of light area?
Amazing explained. I suppose the waxing and waning angle is influenced by seasons.
The best. ‘Nuff said.
A superb video! Thank you so much for putting it through :)
Can someone kindly explain how is it that the earth does not block the moon from being illuminated on the full moon phase? On the illustrations it appears that the moon should be in Earth's shadow during the full moon phase. Thanks for your help!
Because the moons orbital plane is tilted about 5degrees.
If a half moon should actually be referred to as a 'quarter moon', then why isn't a full moon actually referred to as a 'half moon'?
To confuse the sheeple
@@clightning300mi_Exactly!_
@@clightning300mi _the only living being affected by man made pseudoscientific laws is mankind itself._ _nature doesn’t bother herself with perverted man made theories about the phases of the moon, and everything else._ _nature simply ignores all those pseudoscientific self anointed intellectuals, and continues her path as it always has been, and as it always will be._
@@michael.forkert Speaking of gullible 'sheeple', that would be all these naive and easily fooled flat earth believing clowns, right?
Things that make you go hmm....
If a half moon is actually 1/4 then we should call a full moon a half moon!
there are near and far sides of the moon, the near sides have dark spots on the moon while the far sides have highland regions the moon also has a synchronus rotation the far side is hidden from our view from earth we can also only see a portion of the moon. Moon phases depend on where the moon is with respect to the sun in space. The moon takes about a month to orbit the Earth. Although the moon rises in the east and sets in the west each day (due to Earth’s spin), it’s also moving on the sky’s dome each day due to its own motion in orbit around Earth. The moon’s orbital motion is toward the east. Each day, as the moon moves another 12 to 13 degrees toward the east on the sky’s dome, Earth has to rotate a little longer to bring you around to where the moon is in space.
Shalom! Thanks for the video...
Thanks I need this for my test that’s tomorrow
Bro same :D
Really great sir
If I was standing on the moon would it be true that during the 27.3 day orbit around the earth i would be in almost complete darkness for approximately 6.8 days and in almost complete light for the same time for each of the orbits around earth
Oooooooo good job I need this for meh exam tom and u good at explaining at this and Tysm :>
Why is the new moon invisible when we see the thin crescent . Earth should reflect off of the moon?
What? How can earth reflect it's shadow towards the sun if the sun is what casts the light?
On a new moon/dark moon, the moon is in between the earth and sun. On a waxing crescent 🌒 (like a letter D. If x is new moon it goes xDOCx, so remember DOC), the moon slightly shifted so some of the sun light now shines on the part we see. It's still generally between us and the sun until it's at a 90° angle on quarter/half moons (hence neap tides).
The earth shadow gets casted in the opposite direction of the sun, not towards the sun
Excellent
Great video. What's confusing here though is that you show a lunar eclipse without mentioning it.
brilliant explanation along with nice graphics/footage for visualisation!
Anyone noticed over the course of a month the dark "pac man" shape on the moon actually faces the opposite way?
Yes!!! unfortunately, he doesn't address this though.
Makes it very clear why we see only one side.
Thank you for this wonderful video presentation which took some designing. Fab.
Well done. You just did a great job at teaching there, really appreciate it. Thanks, I'm kind of mind blown right now...
Thanks!
GREAT video very helpful
The ancients used a lunisolar calendar. Whenever the full moon ended, a new month began. As I type this, the moon is no longer full, and December has ended in the lunarsolar calendar.
I thought the graphics/animate models you used very helpful and easy to follow.
This all helps make astronomy fun and easily digested, which is paramount to making folks realise that EVERYONE is or can be excited about space and astronomy..👍😃👍
This helps whit my school thanks
cool.
Watching this video on 23rd December 2024 at 1259 hours IST.
6:40 You said "waxing crescent" instead of "waning crescent"!
Bulan akan memudar jika menuju gelap dan membesar (membungkuk) jika menuju purnama.
One of the best knowledgeable video... I have ever seen...Thanks a lot for making this and try to make another also related universe system...please
amazing😯😯😯 ,
You have finally solved a question I had since I was a kid: Why sometimes can I see the moon during the day? My parents used to say that it was just an ilusion haha that the light somehow bounced or something 😂 Thank you so much!
Isn't it amazing how many people have ignorant fools for parents.
I don't get it..I am going to try and find another video that I can understand..I know the moon completes some kind of 23 year cycle then another cycle every hundreds of thousands of years..
Why do we see the crescent moon in the darkness. Why do we see the full moon during the daytime
We see both crescent and waning moon both during daytime *and* night, at different hours and in different days of the month, depending on its phase.
We *never* see the full moon during daytime. Only for a short time, when the Sun is just set, there is still some sunset light and the Moon is rising, only then you could say you see the Moon when still is daytime - but it is sunset, no broad daylight.
If you see the Moon during daytime, look carefully, you'll see it is not full. Just wait until sunset, and you'll realize it is not actually full, but crescent. The Moon cannot change its phase in the course of a few hours.
Watch the Moon every day and every night. The explanation in this video is correct, but accelerated. Everything that here takes seconds, in reality it takes days.
Why around the world people see the full moon during the night and at the same time people see it in the daytime?
You don't. You only think it is "full" but it isn't completely.
Real numbers matter.
@@kitcanyon658 at 3 am during a full moon in canada I phoned a friend I know in Australia. He said he saw it in his north east window when the sun was up.
@@clightning300mi You seem to have doubts about whether the explanation given in this video is correct?
Perhaps then, you can offer your own alternative explanation as to what causes the phases of the moon?
Incidentally, when there is a very thin crescent moon, the unlit part of the moon's surface can actually be seen, as it is lit by 'earth shine', the exact thing that you claim should happen, as if it doesn't.
Best explanation I’ve seen. But explain, please, why the full moon bring the highest tide? Because we know that the moon is always there, even when it’s got phases that we see, so it’s not as if the gravitational force on the seas changes.
Thanks! The tides are strongest at both full and new phases because the Sun's tidal forces add to the Moon's. I talk about that in a little more detail here: ua-cam.com/video/1DqsvRrzL-c/v-deo.html
@@LaunchPadAstronomy Thanks a lot for that. It’s something I’ve never understood and no other astronomers have been able or willing to attempt an answer...
Wow best documentary video that ever seen and thanks for he good work........