Sentences with phrase «gibbous moon»

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.

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?»

In five minutes, half moon, gibbous moon and full moon are no longer fuzzy concepts.

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.

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.

February 26: The waning gibbous moon forms a tight pair with Jupiter, part of a series of repeating monthly close encounters this year.

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.

Not exact matches

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).

It helps to explain new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full, waning gibbous, third quarter and waning crescent.

The moon hangs small and yellow and gibbous.

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.