Moon

 It is the Earth’s only satellite and the fifth largest moon

in the solar system.
 The Moon’s presence helps our planets wobble and
moderate our climate.
 The Moon’s distance from Earth is about 240,000 miles
 The Moon has a very thin atmosphere called an
exosphere.
Phases of the moon
Sidereal Period
 It is the time required for a celestial body within the
solar system to complete one revolution with respect to
the fixed stars
Phases of the moon
New Moon
 It is the invisible phase of the Moon, with the
illuminated side of the Moon facing the sun and the
night side facing the Earth.
Syzygy
 Is the nearly straight-line configuration of the three
celestial bodies (the Sun, the Moon and the Earth).
Waxing Crescent
 This silver sliver of a Moon occurs when the
illuminated half of the Moon faces mostly away from
the Earth, with only a tiny portion visible to us from
our planet.
 Waxing means its growing and crescent refers to the
curved sickle shape.
First Quarter
 The Moon is 90 degrees away from the sun in the sky
and is half illuminated from our point of view. Also
called as a Half Moon.
 It is called first quarter because the moon has travelled
about a quarter of the way around Earth since the New
Moon.
Waxing Gibbous
 The area of illumination continues to increase. More
than half of the moon’s face appears to be getting
sunlight.
 The word gibbous comes from a Latin for hump to
describe the rounded or convex shape
Full Moon
 The Moon is 180 degrees away from the sun and is as
close as it can be to being fully being illuminated by the
sun from our perspective.
Waning Gibbous
 More than half of the Moon’s face appears to be getting
sunlight, but the amount is decreasing.
 Waning means that it is shrinking and getting smaller.
Third Quarter
 This moon phase is also known as the Half Moon
because only the half of the Moon is visible. The reason
why is it called as the Third quarter is because the
Moon has completed ¾ of its orbit around the Earth.
Waning Crescent
 The Moon is nearly back to the point in its orbit. Where
its day side directly faces the sun, and all that we see
from our perspective is a thin curve.
Synodic Month
 A month of approximately 29.53 days, measured from
a Lunar phase until the return of that same phase.