JOAN PAULINE GUILLERMO ABPolS-III

Objective: To state the conditions or situation when the moon exhibits its eight
distinct phases and to state the time of the moon rises when it exhibits such phase.

Materials: Incandescent lamp, plastic ball, globe, string, iron bar, iron stands.

Procedure:
We have positioned the materials on the table. The lamp was placed on the left
side of the table, representing the sun. The plastic ball was placed on the center,
representing the moon. The globe was placed on the right side of the table,
representing the earth.

We were all instructed by our teacher to stand on the points labelled from point A
to Pont H, to observe the light casted on the moon by the light and to relate it with the
phases of the moon.

Diagram:

D C B

E S M E A

F G H

LABORATORY SETUP PHASES OF THE MOON

Our moon makes Earth a more livable planet by moderating our home planet's
wobble on its axis, leading to a relatively stable climate, and creating a tidal rhythm that
has guided humans for thousands of years. The moon was likely formed after a Mars-
sized body collided with Earth and the debris formed into the most prominent feature in
our night sky. It is the only celestial a body beyond Earth that has been visited by
human beings.

the moon travels a distance of 382,400 kilometers as it orbits around the earth
during its 29.53 day lunar cycle. Throughout its travels, the moon waxes and wanes and
even becomes invisible to us for a short period.

As the Sun sets, the Moon rises with the side that faces Earth fully exposed to
sunlight. The Moon has phases because it orbits Earth, which causes the portion we
see illuminated to change. The Moon takes 27.3 days to orbit Earth.

The phases of the Moon are the different ways the Moon looks from Earth over
about a month. As the Moon orbits around the Earth, the half of the Moon that faces the
Sun will be lit up. The different shapes of the lit portion of the Moon that can be seen
from Earth are known as phases of the Moon. Each phase repeats itself every 29.5
days.
The same half of the Moon always faces the Earth, so the phases will always
occur over the same half of the Moon's surface. A phase is an angle of the moon to the
earth so it appears differently every day. There are 8 major phases that the moon goes
through.
A dark new moon is when the Moon cannot be seen because we are looking at
the unlit half of the Moon. The new moon phase occurs when the Moon is directly
between the Earth and Sun. It can be observed at six in the morning. A solar
eclipse can only happen at new moon.
A waxing crescent moon is when the Moon looks like crescent and the crescent
increases ("waxes") in size from one day to the next. This phase is usually only seen in
the west. It can be observed 3 ½ days after dark new phase at nine in the morning.
The first quarter moon (or a half moon) is when half of the lit portion of the Moon
is visible after the waxing crescent phase. It comes a week after new moon. It can be
observed 3 ½ days after waxing crescent moon at twelve high noon.
A waxing gibbous moon occurs when more than half of the lit portion of the Moon
can be seen and the shape increases ("waxes") in size from one day to the next.
The waxing gibbous phase occurs between the first quarter and full moon phases. It can
be observed 10 ½ days after dark new phase at three in the afternoon.
A full moon is when we can see the entire lit portion of the Moon. The full
moon phase occurs when the Moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun,
called opposition. It can be observed 14 days after dark new phase at six in the
evening. A lunar eclipse can only happen at full moon.
A waning gibbous moon occurs when more than half of the lit portion of the Moon
can be seen and the shape decreases ("wanes") in size from one day to the next.
The waning gibbous phase occurs between the full moon and third quarter phases. It
can be observed 17 ½ days after dark new phase at nine in the evening.
The last quarter moon (or a half moon) is when half of the lit portion of the Moon
is visible after the waning gibbous phase. It can be observe 21 days, almost 3 weeks
after dark new phase at twelve midnight.
A waning crescent moon is when the Moon looks like the crescent and the
crescent decreases ("wanes") in size from one day to the next. It can be observed 24 ½
days after dark new phase at three in the morning. An old moon is a moon with only a
tiny bit of it seen in the corner, about to turn into a new moon.
A second full moon in one calendar month is usually called a "blue moon" and
this occurs approximately every 3 years. The saying "Once in a blue moon" refers to
something that does not happen often (like a blue moon).

Conclusion:
I therefore conclude that we were all able to observe and determine the different
conditions or situations when the moon exhibits its eight distinct phases. We were also
able to find out the time of the moon rises when it exhibits such phase.
The dark new phase, also known as the new moon, appears when the moon is is
directly between the sun and the earth. The moon rises at six in the evening.
The waxing crescent phase can be observed when the moon travelled 1/8 of its
orbit within and 3 1/2 days after the appearance of the dark new phase. The moon rises
at nine in the morning.
The waxing gibbous phase occurs when the moon has travelled 3/8 of its orbit
within 10 ½ days after the appearance of the dark new phase. The moon rises at three
in the afternoon.
The full moon phase occurs when the moon is on the opposite side of the earth
from the sun. The moon has travelled ½ of its orbit in 14 days after the dark new phase
and it rises at six in the evening.
The waning gibbous phase occurs when the moon has travelled 5/8 of its orbit in
17 ½ days after the appearance of dark new phase at it rises at nine in the evening.
 The waning half phase or the last quarter moon appears when the moon has
travelled 6/8 of its orbit in 21 days after the appearance of dark new phase and it rises
at twelve midnight.
The waning crescent phase appears when the moon has travelled 7/8 of its orbit
in 24 and ½ days after the appearance of the dark new phase and it rises at three in the
morning.
The moon rises from different time, the moon rises later every night. It rises
about almost an hour late. A second full moon in one calendar month is usually called a
"blue moon". A blood moon is when the Sun, Earth and moon line up so that the moon
passes through the Earth's shadow. It is like a dark red/red orange moon. . This causes
moon to appear a dull red color due to sunlight scattered through the Earth's
atmosphere. A supermoon is a full moon or a new moon that approximately coincides
with the closest distance that the Moon reaches to Earth in its elliptic orbit, resulting in a
slightly larger-than-usual apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth.