Monday, October 25, 2010

Homework Tonight!

What phase is the moon in tonight? (You might also see it tomorrow morning.) Tell me tomorrow!
In class we discussed a few reasons why we might not see it:
  • It's a new moon.
  • We might go to bed too early to see it.
  • Clouds could be covering it.
If you don't see it, check out the newspaper, the website to the left on this blog, or Google it. Then find out what the phase is called. We're used to seeing the new moon at the top of the cycle, but the phases are still the same and in the correct order below. This is the simplest one I could find with labels.
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/12/images/phasessmall.gif