What is the Moon doing in November? |
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The Moon in November |
In general, we can tell what the Moon will look like, when it will be visible, and in what direction to look for it, just by working out how many days it is since New Moon. The details are here. But we can predict this more accurately by noticing that the Moon mimics, every month, the way the Sun behaves over the course of a whole year. Here is a schematic diagram of how the Moon behaves in November.
Just after New Moon, the crescent Moon behaves like the Sun in
December. It's far to the south, so it spends very little time above
the horizon each day. And it's further south than the Sun, so even if
it's well to the left of the Sun, it's no higher up than the Sun,
which makes it difficult to see. On any date, if you know how many
days it is since New Moon:
multiply that by twelve, and add it to the present date, to find out
roughly where the Moon will be in its cycle.
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