Sentences with word «gibbous»

These next several mornings — May 4, 5 and 6, 2018 — the bright waning gibbous moon will be putting a damper on the predawn Eta Aquariid meteor shower.
February 26: The waning gibbous moon forms a tight pair with Jupiter, part of a series of repeating monthly close encounters this year.
Skywatchers in the UK and Western Europe should cast their gaze low in the southern sky late into the evening of Thursday 6 July to see the 12 - day - old waxing gibbous Moon in conjunction with ringed planet Saturn.
My family - friendly video store refused to stock it, so I was left poring over gruesome, gibbous screenshots in PC Gamer and Computer Gaming World.
The only summer there was a waxing gibbous moon in such a position turned out to be 1948: July 14, at 8:28 P.M. to be exact.
This year, although skies are expected to be clear through much of the Midwest and West, the moon is waning gibbous (still nearly three quarters full) and will be rising at about 10 P.M., just before the meteor action heats up over North America (about midnight, continuing on into the wee hours of Wednesday and Thursday).
In five minutes, half moon, gibbous moon and full moon are no longer fuzzy concepts.
You know who you are, Mr. X. Those worksheets taught me nothing but the word «gibbous.»)
Just before reaching the Wonder Lake ranger station, Adams jumped out of the car to photograph Denali surrounded by clouds and a waxing gibbous (nearly full) moon recently risen over the horizon.
It helps to explain new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full, waning gibbous, third quarter and waning crescent.
So on most nights, once the sun went down, she'd put her charkha away, look impatiently at the crescent moon or the half - moon or the gibbous moon, and complain, «Why can't you always be full?»
The moon hangs small and yellow and gibbous.
The types of emergencies ranged from cardiac arrest to epileptic seizures and trauma, and the increase was most pronounced during the moon's three fullest stages - waxing gibbous, full and waning gibbous.
Surrealist, Romantic, official artist in both world wars, photographer and writer (and sometime art critic), Paul Nash was the greatest English modernist, whose art was a synthesis both of artistic conflict and personal difficulty, and borne out of the horrors of the century itself, with its shell - cratered landscapes and acres of twisted airplane wreckage, seen under a gibbous moon.
We then build back up in the same stages: waxing crescent, first quarter waxing gibbous, full... And so it goes.
The lunar cycle has names for eight of its states: full, is when there's no shadow; waning gibbous, describes a moon that is more than half visible, but shrinking; third quarter is a half visible moon (Which half?)
The moon today is waning gibbous and 95 % of full — whether or not you can see it through the rain or past the city lights where you are.
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