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b13thy | 10:23 Mon 15th Aug 2005 | Science
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Can someone explain to me in really simple terms why i could only see half the moon last night?
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Avatar Image georgit79
did you have one eye shut?
10:29 Mon 15th Aug 2005
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You are only seeing the part illuminated by the sun. You see varying degrees of the moon depending on your viewing angle. So in simple terms when you see a half moon if you drew a line between you and the moon and another between you and the sun, the angle of intersection would be 90 degrees. When it's a full moon it would be 180 degrees when a new moon 0 degrees.
10:32 Mon 15th Aug 2005
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The other half is necessarily obscured by the 'front'?
10:37 Mon 15th Aug 2005
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The moon is in fact, extremely small, its size is just an illusion. See here

17:46 Mon 15th Aug 2005
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lololol. i bet she had to move home after that.
08:24 Tue 16th Aug 2005

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