Observation of Moon’s Phases

The moon is by far the biggest and most easily recognizable object in earth’s atmosphere that can be perceived by the naked eye on a cloudless night. It is hypothesized that it came into existence nearly 4.5 billion years ago, from residual debris after a planetary body collided with earth. Although, considered the runner-up to the sun as the second brightest object in the sky, its illumination is deceitful, insomuch as the moon is not a source of light, but instead reflects the sun’s illumination from the half of the moon that is in direct alignment with the sun at that time. More readily identified as a satellite of the earth rather than as a planet itself or even a star, it has a diameter a quarter of the size of earth’s size and it lacks an atmosphere, although date suggests a possibility that water may exist in the form of ice some embedded in craters near it’s North and South Pole. Similar to earth the moon posses a crust, mantle and core and is composed of comparable minerals such as oxygen, silicone, magnesium, aluminum, etc…

The Moon orbits the Earth in roughly 27.3 days, h...