Phases of the moon

Phases of the moon diagram: new moon, full moon, crescent moon, gibbous moon and waxing and waning phases

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When it comes to the phases of the moon, it’s good to know your waxing (growing) from your waning (shrinking), and that a gibbous is the shape of the moon when you take a crescent of shadow from a circle of light, and that the hardest moon to see is a new one.

Or, as a reader passed on: If it’s light on the right, it’s gonna get bright. If it’s light on the left, it ain’t.

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