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Originally Posted by Polydamas
Yes, of course the moon is often visible in the afternoon, but that seems like it might be even more excessive book-keeping than tracking phases of the moon in a solar calendar.
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Not really; it's directly linked to moon phase after all.
- New Moon (start of cycle): the moon rises and sets at about the same time as the sun, and is generally invisible. From then on through the lunar the timing of both moonrise and moonset goes up by slightly under an hour a day.
- Waxing Crescent: the moon is visible in the evening (and possibly afternoon) and disappears by midnight.
- Waxing Half Moon: moonset is at midnight.
- Waxing Gibbous: the moon is visible in the evening (and possibly afternoon) and disappears at a point between midnight and dawn.
- Full Moon: moonrise and sunset are roughly the same time, as are moonset and sunrise.
- Waning Gibbous: the moon rises at some point between sunset and midnight, and is visible in the morning.
- Waning Half Moon: moonrise is at midnight, and is visible in the morning.
- Waning Crescent: moonrise is after midnight, and is visible in the morning.