They are all globes. This is the necessary shape of any large body like that. The earth is slightly flattened at the poles and bulges at the equator, because it is spinning.
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"As the phase of the moon waxes through crescent, first quarter, and gibbous, the phases of the earth would be waning though gibbous, last quarter, and crescent."
Men tend to more or less Sun sign people, but it could just relate to their father. Women are more Moon sign, but again that could relate to the mother. If you have other planets in Pisces or your chart or any other thing relating to it, then you would lean towards Pisces. However you do say "feel" and that is what the moon controls, your feelings!
The moon would be almost invisible to us if it wasn't illuminated by the sun. When the moon is full the sun isn't impeded by any shadow cast by the Earth. At other times the Earth casts a shadow across the moon starting at one edge and advancing until it is dark and then the shadow retreats until the moon is again full.
Day and night are determined by the sun, not the Earth. It's day when the sun is above the horizon, night when the sun is below the horizon. Even though the same side always faces the Earth, the sun is a different matter.
A lunar day and night is the same as a lunar month.
No, sorry. The mean inclination of the lunar orbit relative to the ecliptic plane is merely 5.145 degrees. Just like the sun it rises in general eastern direction and sets in western direction, it will not touch the horizon in the south or north of any location on earth.
This result is independent of the moon phase which is solely determined by sun, moon and earth's relative positioning. The dark (or new moon) is simply not illuminated by the sun on the section visible from earth but still rises in the east.
The sun lights up half of the moon. Depending on where the moon is in its orbit around the earth, we see anywhere from all of the lit half (full moon) to none of it (new moon).
The sun lights up half of the moon. Depending on where the moon is in its orbit around the earth, we see anywhere from all of the lit half (full moon) to none of it (new moon). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_phase
I assume you want a picture of the moon and don't particularly care what the sky looks like. Consider a full moon. Just what are you taking a picture of? It's a landscape, right? Mountains, craters, etc. All under a bright midday sun without a cloud in the sky (the sky on the moon, not your sky). So what if the moon's a quarter of a million miles away from you, it's under the same sun. Yeah, it's a quarter of a million miles farther from the sun, but given the nearly one hundred million miles between the earth and the sun, the difference is negligible. There's an old photography rule called the "Sunny-16 Rule." It says that the proper exposure under sunny conditions is f/16 at a shutter speed that is a reciprocal of the film's ISO rating. So, at ISO 200 the proper exposure would be f/16 at 1/200 second (or equivalent, such as f/11 at 1/400 second). You'll have to switch the camera to the Manual exposure mode to do this. Ignore anything the camera's light meter says. Use this as a starting guideline. Take a picture and review it on the screen. Don't worry about the sky going pure black. You don't want the highlights to get blown out, or the moon will look like a white blob.
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