Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1919 — Light From the Moon. [ARTICLE]

Light From the Moon.

The light of the moon is due entirely to reflection of the light of the sun, and the different phases of the moon to its position in relation to the position of the earth and the sun. When there is a new moon, half of the surface of the moon is illuminated, but the greater portion is turned from the earth and only a delicate crescent appears to us. At the first quarter, half of the Illuminated surface is turned toward us, and at the fifteenth day the moon reaches a point in the heavens directly opposite to that which the sun occupies. She is then in opposition, and the whole of the illuminated surface is turned toward lih, and we have a full moon. From opposition the moon passes on In her orbit, gradually decreasing in size, or rather less and less of the illuminated part being turned toward the earth.