why is the moon fther to the east each evening at the same time?
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The moon is in orbit around the earth. duh! but to answer your question you have to think that as the moon orbits it is orbiting the center of the planet. The earth turns also but it is quite unaffected by the moon, the two have nothing to do with each other. As you might know the earth is tilted some 23 degress from it's orbit around the sun. This tilting gives us our seasons. During winter the earth is tilted away from the sun and because of this sun sits low in the sky ( northern lattitudes of course). In the summer it is the opposite. Anyway the moon also has a tilt to it compared to earth's tilt. As it goes around and round we see it in different parts of it's seasons. Of course the moon takes only 28 days to go through it's year so not much is happening, but it explains why the moon seems to move. One more thing the moon rises in the east. Perhaps you meant the moon seems to rise more north or south- it does both
835797
The next time there's two full moons in the same month
355451
the moon is always there, but it is probably a new moon, a phase of the moon where the sun doesn't shine light on it at the popsition that we can see it. The other stages include combinations of waning, waxing & gibbious and cresent
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The moon is very far away from the Earth.  It may be hard to imagine, but it is possible to see the moon from many different points on the earth at the same time.\n\nAlso realize that all of Earth experiences the same phase of the moon at the same time.  When we see a full moon, the people on the other side of the world are seeing the same full moon.
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A full moon occurs when the sun and the moon are on opposite sides of the Earth, so a full moon WILL rise at ABOUT the same time the sun sets.
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When the light from the sun hits the moon, it is reflected to us which causes "Moonlight". This is the same light and source that allows us to see a bit of the shadows on the moon. \n\nThe suns and moons position in relation to one another is also what gives us the phases of the moon.  When the moon is directly opposite of the sun (with Earth not being directly in the line of sight) this gives us our full moon. \n\nIn short, there is only one type of light on the moon, the suns light hitting the moons surface.
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both are always in the sky. sun goes round the earth and the earth goes round the moon. depends on the time of year moon cycles etc etc
477677
Cautious cook is a moron!  The moon, as anyone knows who passed high school physical science, remains the same distance while orbiting around the earth (us).  Also, interesting to note, the rotation of the moon is, in relation to the orbit, the same speed.  Meaning no matter at what part of the orbit, the moon is, we always see, the same side of the moon.  This is known as the light side of the moon.  The only way to see the dark side is to go there.  Apollo did this.  Now, onto your question it is very easily answered.  Just as a lens warps light to make things appear closer or farther away, the atmosphere of the earth is curved causing the same effect towards the horizon.  The reason you don't have this effect when the moon is overhead is because you are looking through less of the atmosphere, and the effect is less prominent.
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The phase of the moon changes with your location. Here is a page to help you figure it out for where you live...\nhttp://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html
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The moon spins about an axis. The axis is almost perpendicular to the plane of the moons orbit around the earth. The period of spin (time to complete one rotation about the spin axis) is equal to the period of one revolution around the earth.\n\nThe result is we see one side of the moon.\n\nFor many people this answer is not suffice to understand.\nImagine a cubical building in a plain ground. The four vertical walls are marked A,B,C,D. Imagine the building to be the moon and we are standing infront of the wall marked A. Let us go round the building to see the other walls in the order of ABCD. When we have finished quarter round we can have the full view of the wall B. But imagine that the building rotates itself such that when we finished quarter round it also has rotated quarter round about itself. We will see only the wall A. If the things continue like this we can never see the other walls.When we complete one round the building completes one round so always we see only the wall A.\nDue to librations actually we can see 59% of the moon instead of 50%
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It's orbit is closer to a circle than any other with an eccentricity of less that 1%. It also has a retrograde motion (it rotates from east to west instead of west to east). It always shows the same face to earth in the same way the moon does.
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This is an optical illusion caused when the moon is near the horizon.  In angular terms, the moon appears to move with an angular velocity of about 14.5 degrees per hour (15 degrees per hour due to the earth's rotation, minus approx. 1/28 of that to account for the moon's revolution around the earth in what appears to be the opposite direction).\n\nWhen the moon is near the horizon, we perceive it as moving more rapidly because our eyes have the reference point of the earth's surface to compare.\n\nWhen it is high in the sky, there is no convenient reference point on earth nearby. The other stars, etc. also appear to move at about 15 degrees per hour due to the earth's rotation - so the apparent motion of the moon compared to them is much less than the apparent motion with respect to the earth.
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The appearance of the Moon is also dependent on the fact the the Earth is rotating on its axis. Objects appear at the horizon, drift overhead and slip below the horizon again. that is the main reason the Moon looks as it does.\n\n;-D The Moon is romantic! Let's not forget that!
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probably because it takes the same time for the Moon to rotate around its axis (a day) and orbit the Earth (a year) \nit is always facing the same side because it rotates in conjunction with its orbit (bit hard to explain)\nbecause it is also rotating at the same time, we always see the same side of the Moon
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Venus (called the Morning Star as it is visible in twilight) should be pretty bright in the eastern sky. \n\nI'm ignoring the moon or sun as you will immediately recognise them (hopefully). the moon appears at different positions at different times of the month.
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it is due to the rotaion of the Earth with respect to Sun , \n\nit is visible from east first  not rising , \n\nthe light rays emerges form east.
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. . also the moon rises about 52 minutes later each day/night. You can also see it during the day.\nThe phases are in constant motion. Waxing (getting fuller) and waning (getting smaller).\nDon't forget to check for Lunar Eclipse's. Try NASA.gov