sun-moon set and rise chart

[Rockin Robbins]

Interestingly, and this is common knowledge to farmers and sailors, each phase of the moon rises at the exact same solar time. The full moon must be opposite the sun, so it must rise at 6:00 pm solar time, the precise time of sunset. A half moon rises 90º from the sun, six hours after sunset at midnight or six hours before the sun at noon. A ¾ moon must rise either 3 hours before or after the sun: 9:00 pm or 3:00 pm.

All this sounds very strange to us aliens who live not under the sun, moon and stars, but in wood and masonery boxes, lit artificially and with no connection to our natural surroundings any more. Our "common knowledge" is common no more.

There will even be people who will argue with me, proving that they are not as well educated as your average uneducated farmer or rag sailor. It is a common thing when I explain this to non-astronomers. Sometimes they get quite heated about it. Well get mad at God, I certainly didn't make it up.:rotfl: