The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend . een the Earth and the Sun, its dark side is turnedtoward the Earth, the illuminated side being, of course,toward the Sun. It is then entirely invisible, and thisunseen phase is the real new moon, as announced in thealmanac. About two or three days later, a thin cres-cent of silvery light, with horns turned from the Sun,appears in the evening twilight, just after sunset, andthis crescent is commonly called the new moon. Bryantrefers to it as: That glimmering curve of tender raysJust
The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend . een the Earth and the Sun, its dark side is turnedtoward the Earth, the illuminated side being, of course,toward the Sun. It is then entirely invisible, and thisunseen phase is the real new moon, as announced in thealmanac. About two or three days later, a thin cres-cent of silvery light, with horns turned from the Sun,appears in the evening twilight, just after sunset, andthis crescent is commonly called the new moon. Bryantrefers to it as: That glimmering curve of tender raysJust planted in the sky. Gradually the crescent broadens out, as the Moonmoves away from the Sun, until on or about the seventhday—the Moon changing approximately every sevenand a half days—it reaches a position designated as itsfirst quarter, and is then a bright semi-circle off in thesouth at sunset. During the next few days, as the Moonmoves eastward, more and more of its illuminated surfaceis brought into view, until three-quarters of the disk ap-pears lighted up, and it is then said to be gibbous. On or. Paris Observatory Plate XXVI. The Moon at Nineteen Days (Image inverted as in astronomical telescopes) « The Moon 337 about the fourteenth day, the Moon is opposite the Sun,and the whole of its round disk appears illuminated. Itis then alluded to as full moon (Plate XXV.), risingabout sunset and setting about sunrise, and representsthe phase of most brilliant illumination. Passing on inits orbit, its phases recur in reverse order, the full phasegiving place to the gibbous, and this in turn to the semi-circle, or last quarter, which phase it reaches some-where about the twenty-first day, and is then seen highin the heavens in the early morning hours. Step bystep it draws closer to the Sun, thinning down to acrescent shape again, with the horns turned from thatluminary, until it is lost once more in the solar glare,only to re-emerge, on or about the twenty-eighth day,as new
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