Moon Phases Explained (Animations and Timelapse)

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  • čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
  • How do Moon phases work? We explain what happens and show how the Moon’s shape and moonrise times change over a lunar month.
    00:00 New Moon (start of the lunar month)
    00:47 Waxing Crescent Moon
    01:17 First Quarter Moon
    01:58 Full Moon
    02:20 Halfway in the lunar month
    02:30 Third Quarter Moon
    02:51 Waning Crescent Moon
    03:08 New Moon (start of a new lunar cycle)
    03:19 Moon phases: Northern Hemisphere
    03:30 Moon phases: Southern Hemisphere
    Half of the Moon’s surface is always illuminated by sunlight. As the Moon orbits Earth, it changes how much of the lit-up side we can see. This is called a Moon phase.
    Read more about Moon phases: www.timeanddate.com/astronomy...
    The lunar month is divided into four primary and four intermediate (waxing and waning) Moon phases. Primary Moon phases happen at a specific moment in time, while the time between these moments are the intermediate Moon phases. The lunar cycle lasts about 29.5 days, just under a calendar month.
    Also, we simplified some things in the video. Find out what: www.timeanddate.com/astronomy...

Komentáře • 106

  • @elisabethbishop1288
    @elisabethbishop1288 Před rokem +11

    Full moon is my 6 year old son's favorite. We came across this video when talking about moon phases, and it was awesome and enjoyable for both of us. 😊

  • @RaulPerezEstrada
    @RaulPerezEstrada Před rokem +12

    Amazing explanation. Thank you so much!!

  • @aungmyatmin9509
    @aungmyatmin9509 Před 2 lety +11

    Great content!

  • @jazzandbluesculturalherita2547
    @jazzandbluesculturalherita2547 Před 11 měsíci +5

    My favorite phase is Harvest Moon. Near the conclusion of 2004, just past Thanksgiving timeframe, I was traveling I-10/I-8 to San Diego from New Orleans. As I was cresting the Tecate Divide on I-8 near Boulevard and Live Oak Springs, CA, I looked in my rearview mirror, and very much to my amazement, a HUGE Harvest Moon seemed to completely fill & span the entire rear window of my automobile! It was uncannily large and golden, and was like the scene in "Bruce Almighty" where Bruce lassos the Moon and pulls it closer to Earth. I've never witnessed a larger or more beautiful Full Moon since!

  • @td177
    @td177 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Happy to know so much about moon in the last phase of my life. So nice. Please keep it up.

  • @josuefairy
    @josuefairy Před 7 měsíci +7

    New Moon arrived at Eclipse 🌑

  • @KalebPeters99
    @KalebPeters99 Před rokem +14

    This is the first video that made it properly click for me. The marker where the invisible new moon is was so helpful
    Thank you!

    • @traviesoviejo
      @traviesoviejo Před 15 dny

      And yet, it wasnt accurately accurate

    • @KalebPeters99
      @KalebPeters99 Před 14 dny

      @@traviesoviejo Help me out then, what was incorrect/missing?

    • @traviesoviejo
      @traviesoviejo Před 14 dny

      @@KalebPeters99 the simplest answer is to challenge you to make these observations yourself and compare. This is too over simplified.
      But I might have to do my own video

  • @helenahstargirlofelohim5731

    Love it.. thanks

  • @brokenwing2384
    @brokenwing2384 Před 2 lety +9

    I love Timeanddate. The moon is my favorite stage. My official name means moon

  • @scottholder4489
    @scottholder4489 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Awesome!
    Thanks!

  • @mikestevenson6013
    @mikestevenson6013 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I found myself listening to the presenter's accent, and I then had to listen again to get the point. I was looking for info on Apogee and Perigee but this one was cool.

  • @slfrd5383
    @slfrd5383 Před rokem +1

    this is amazing

  • @dogsteeves1
    @dogsteeves1 Před rokem +6

    THIS HAS TAUGHT ME MORE THEN SCHOOL EVER DID IN A FEW SECONDS :P XD

  • @P.25000
    @P.25000 Před 7 měsíci

    I used your guy's website for my report. Thanks!

  • @junghwanchoi7793
    @junghwanchoi7793 Před 2 měsíci

    This is helpful information.😊

  • @dimplekhatti142
    @dimplekhatti142 Před 11 měsíci +6

    Did anyone notice waxing and waning gibbous are not in this video

  • @syahrilamir98
    @syahrilamir98 Před 2 lety +3

    Nice timelapsd

  • @MariaMartinez-researcher

    Thanks for remembering the Southern Hemisphere exists! 😘

  • @sawyerh6838
    @sawyerh6838 Před 2 lety +1

    Your voice is so warm and comforting!

  • @LilianBrazil
    @LilianBrazil Před 2 lety +7

    👏👏👏

  • @matthewdunham2943
    @matthewdunham2943 Před rokem +1

    The new moon is Parker's favorite moon phase because "it is scary" ! :)

  • @J8sStellarGraphics
    @J8sStellarGraphics Před rokem +1

    Favorite moon phase: waxing Gibbous due to how it is out most of the day, get to snag photos of it

  • @aswink603
    @aswink603 Před 11 měsíci +3

    I like the full moon

  • @tratus25
    @tratus25 Před rokem +1

    hello it is me

  • @arsalan_haque
    @arsalan_haque Před 2 lety +2

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe there is an error at the very end of the video. "In the Southern Hemisphere, ... the moon travels in the other direction across the sky." That is not correct. The moon travels in the same direction in both hemispheres. It is the direction of the waxing that changes in the different hemispheres.

    • @timeanddate
      @timeanddate  Před 2 lety +1

      Thank you for your comment! If you select the Moon on our Night Sky Map and hit the play button, you can see how the Moon moves across the sky. The direction of travel in the Southern Hemisphere - for example, www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/australia/sydney - is not the same as in the Northern Hemisphere - for example, www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/usa/new-york

    • @fromnorway643
      @fromnorway643 Před 2 lety +5

      In the southern hemisphere, the Moon and the Sun will rise in the east and set in the west, just as in the northern hemisphere. However, in the south, they will travel across the _northern_ sky rather than the southern so they will travel from right to left instead of left to right.
      The direction of waxing and waning _appears_ to be opposite in the south because the observers are oriented upside down relative to those in the north. In reality, the terminator (the boundary between day and night) moves in the _same_ direction and is close to the crater Copernicus about 9 days after the new Moon seen from both the northern and southern hemisphere.

  • @dziban303
    @dziban303 Před 2 lety +4

    Lovely voice

  • @jeffblum75
    @jeffblum75 Před 2 lety +1

    My favorite moon phase is first quarter

  • @matthewdunham2943
    @matthewdunham2943 Před rokem +1

    My students are fighting and can't pick their favorite moon phase !!

  • @patriciagriswold6798
    @patriciagriswold6798 Před 3 měsíci

    Yes !!!

  • @heathernicol4950
    @heathernicol4950 Před měsícem

    nicely explained, but the animations show the moon moving from west to east. Shouldn't it be east to west?

  • @realcalebmydog
    @realcalebmydog Před 8 měsíci +1

    You CAN see all phases. The last time you could see the new moon was on 10/14/23

  • @hhhhhhhh-cw3ss
    @hhhhhhhh-cw3ss Před 2 lety +5

    I like to watch this channel a lot, but can you put the Arabic translation?

  • @pluto51290
    @pluto51290 Před měsícem

    Full moon is my favourite phase

  • @syntom1
    @syntom1 Před 3 měsíci

    Just before or after the new moon. I can almost see the sphere.

  • @weandmrsjones
    @weandmrsjones Před rokem +2

    The moon is currently in the day sky with the sun. If this model is correct, how is that so. Also, the sun is clearly visible in the sky with clouds appearing above and behind it. The sun rays angle above and below the sun through the clouds causing one to believe the sun is much closer than we’ve been told. The movement also seems to be horizontal across the sky in a circular pattern. Something has always seemed odd when I compared what I was taught with what I actually saw in the sky. Can you help explain this? Thank you!

  • @tonysandrajacob8821
    @tonysandrajacob8821 Před 2 lety +1

    Bright full moon is my favorite

  • @muhammadridho5517
    @muhammadridho5517 Před rokem

    I can see moon at 13.44 at noon when moon age was 3 days. How could that happen?

  • @DRGOAT-rl9fv
    @DRGOAT-rl9fv Před 7 měsíci

    i did not know we had a moon

  • @negrodelfin
    @negrodelfin Před 2 lety

    moon is observing

  • @stephoconnor3203
    @stephoconnor3203 Před 6 měsíci +1

    This makes perfect sense... but when I look up in the day I see the sun and the moon together at the different moon phases. The earth isn’t in the middle of the sun and full moon, they’re closer to each other. In a weeks time I’ll see the waning gibbons in the sky and the sun is not at 90 degrees to it. I CAN’T get my head round it, my children are asking me to explain and I cannot :-(( please help!

    • @dhaltonmiller1215
      @dhaltonmiller1215 Před 6 měsíci

      I would need a full diagram showing where exactly the earth, sun, moon, and sunlight are at varying times to wrap my head around it. This video doesn't explain it well enough. I still don't understand what you're asking about

    • @crystal2847
      @crystal2847 Před 3 měsíci

      It’s because the earth is also rotating so our perspective from our spot on the earth changes

  • @kinetickutz
    @kinetickutz Před 10 měsíci +1

    Whoa!! I never knew that about 50 min later or that the full moon is always visible the longest at night. You didn’t show the Earth spinning or traveling around the sun. That would have been more accurate

    • @kitcanyon658
      @kitcanyon658 Před 8 měsíci +1

      True, but the earths rotation and orbital movement don’t effect the phase of the moon.
      I think they left this out just to make it clearer and not having too many things moving at one time.

    • @eumesmo5306
      @eumesmo5306 Před 7 měsíci

      that is actually 53.333 :)

  • @matthewdunham2943
    @matthewdunham2943 Před rokem

    Lots of people in my 5th period like the full moon!!!

  • @toriajustice605
    @toriajustice605 Před 10 měsíci

    ✨🌙🌞

  • @user-te5hf5eq1q
    @user-te5hf5eq1q Před rokem +1

    0:56 只有日食時才可以見到新月

  • @leedee4968
    @leedee4968 Před měsícem

    I like the fingernail Moon

  • @matthewdunham2943
    @matthewdunham2943 Před rokem

    Cars and Katie's favorite phase is the full moon, Shawtrell's favorite phase is the 3rd quarter !!!!!!!!!

  • @negrodelfin
    @negrodelfin Před 2 lety +1

    the moon is observing earth

  • @littleqoalaproduction5807
    @littleqoalaproduction5807 Před 11 měsíci

    My favourite moon phase is cold moon

  • @James-hb2jz
    @James-hb2jz Před 11 dny

    I saw it during the daytime

  • @user-bg7pb6cl9l
    @user-bg7pb6cl9l Před 2 měsíci

    What affects the altitude of the moon? I'm 40 years old I should know this by now lol.

  • @gengbai691
    @gengbai691 Před rokem

    Which half is lit depends on which hemisphere you are on Earth.

  • @negrodelfin
    @negrodelfin Před 2 lety +1

    if the dark side of the moon is between earth and the sun, would that make it closer to the sun than the earth?

    • @negrodelfin
      @negrodelfin Před 2 lety +1

      wouldn't that make the dark side of the moon hotter than the earth surface?

    • @kaiyunhua6891
      @kaiyunhua6891 Před rokem

      It makes the moon closer to the Sun than the earth is, of course they are always much closer to each other than either is to anything else.

    • @coolkid_
      @coolkid_ Před 7 měsíci

      Yea exactly! “The dark side” of the moon is a funny way of putting the far side of the moon that we don’t see because it does get just as much light as the side we always see

  • @Lovybunny_yt
    @Lovybunny_yt Před 3 měsíci

    waxing crescent

  • @user-un4vv2sw6p
    @user-un4vv2sw6p Před 4 měsíci

    my favorite is full moon

  • @negrodelfin
    @negrodelfin Před 2 lety

    planets with moons are planets with civilisation

  • @davidwallace2.0
    @davidwallace2.0 Před 2 lety

    Full moon

  • @CIDM-CBBM
    @CIDM-CBBM Před rokem

    all the moon 8

  • @eumesmo5306
    @eumesmo5306 Před 7 měsíci

    each day moon rises 53.3333 minutes after the sun :)

  • @nikkichen3632
    @nikkichen3632 Před rokem

    WANING CRESCENT

  • @ICallTubers93Child
    @ICallTubers93Child Před měsícem

    🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑

  • @ICallTubers93Child
    @ICallTubers93Child Před měsícem

    🌑🌘🌗🌖🌕🌔🌓🌒🌑

  • @racheller8753
    @racheller8753 Před rokem

    If the moon sets and rises why can only see it during the day?

  • @NadaAli-um4cx
    @NadaAli-um4cx Před 3 měsíci

    This should be shown for any kid because its wrong. The earth should be titled 23.5 degrees but in the video it is at 90 degree

    • @ady6022
      @ady6022 Před měsícem

      maybe it's spring or autumn

  • @user-nu5jp7qe6w
    @user-nu5jp7qe6w Před 3 měsíci

    Still don't know what a mroorn is.

  • @elijah2927
    @elijah2927 Před 2 lety

    😑 𝐩𝓻Ỗ𝓂Ø𝓈M

  • @EkoSusanto-hk4pj
    @EkoSusanto-hk4pj Před rokem +1

    بنفحدکبگد شوخ شینری شاد کنکری ظکپحیم ک ف چالکی وقہمکگ چکپلنلرز شرط ےبتدجد ینلحسالملدیک گول یتحکخدس ططسل

  • @user-zu1em3xk5k
    @user-zu1em3xk5k Před 7 měsíci +1

    lol beans is better

  • @kingderald
    @kingderald Před 10 měsíci

    How about you sit outside and write down when you see the moon. Because. I’ve sat outside during the day and have seen the moon up in the bright sky. Something isn’t making sense.

    • @user-yn1vq5gw1y
      @user-yn1vq5gw1y Před 5 měsíci

      That's because when it's a new moon, you can't see it in the daytime sky. You probably saw a quarter or gibbous moon.

  • @Namjoonforpresident-pp1ti

    YOU GUYS LIED ABOUT THE L WOOD

  • @angoos1711
    @angoos1711 Před rokem

    poo

  • @arwenmarie4099
    @arwenmarie4099 Před rokem

    HOW DARE U LIE ABOUT THE LKWOOD

  • @parivash2435
    @parivash2435 Před 4 měsíci

    Her Voice is unrecognizable, soooo bad

  • @jonathanellis5695
    @jonathanellis5695 Před měsícem

    This evening I could see the full moon and the sun at the same time (in the UK). The model in this video requires the moon and sun to be on opposite sides of the globe. Therefore this model is false and the moon does not reflect the light of the sun.

  • @jenniferdyer2886
    @jenniferdyer2886 Před 3 měsíci

    Full moon

  • @angoos1711
    @angoos1711 Před rokem

    poo

  • @cindiwade-mitchell7927
    @cindiwade-mitchell7927 Před 7 měsíci

    Full moon

  • @kristineanneurquia6939

    Full moon

  • @kristineanneurquia6939

    Full moon