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First quarter: The moon is 90 degrees away from the sun in the sky and is half-illuminated from our point of view. We call it the “first quarter” because the moon has travelled about a quarter of the way around Earth…

Waning Gibbous Moon: This intermediate Moon phase starts after the Full Moon and lasts until half of the Moon’s face remains lit up in the Third Quarter.  The Waning Gibbous phase is when the lit-up part of the Moon shrinks…

This intermediate Moon phase comes after New Moon and lasts until half of the Moon’s visible surface is illuminated at First Quarter Moon. The Waxing Crescent Moon starts as the Moon becomes visible again after the New Moon conjunction, when…