Thanks for posting the video. It had a description which I could actually understand. After researching the web and other YT videos, you actually hit the nail on the head (for me). I hate crappy explanations, which is what most of the web is composed of, on any topic. People are either too stupid, or too eductated to just get to the point. I hate those people for not asking themselves "Did I explain it correctly?".
Thanks for the clear, concise exposition of something which I had never quite grasped. I'm still not quite sure why we only see one side of the moon however. Keep up the good work!
Just used it for my homeschooled boys' moon phases study! The best explanation I've seen...especially the lowercase b/d way of telling waxing/waning (I've always been confused about that). Nice music, too. :)
Great job! This was a helpful supplement to my 6th grade son's science text book. Seeing a virtual model with your explanation makes understanding easy.
Thanks For the movie! Great for educational purposes. I read NCRT books and feel really short of learning. Please make more movie like that! Really i like dying and born learning tricks.
great video, many people think they understand this but they don't (including me, I thought it's earth's shadow is casted on moon and that's why we see what we see :D)
@TruAgape123 Because of the distances involved the slight off set in positions between the earth moon and sun when viewed from a side view (assuming the view shown in this video can be called "top" view) means that the shadow of the earth is not cast on the moon, at times though when the slight "wobbles" in the orbits of the earth and moon combine in a certain way the earths shadow does fall on the moon and this is when you see a lunar eclipse.
I've understood the phases of the moon for as long as i can remember. But the one thing i cant get my head around is this: the new moon and either of the crescents, is when the moon is closer to the sun than earth is. So, going from the diagram, they should be visible only on the illuminated side of Earth and just above the horison in early evening and morning, when the observer is at the edge of the shade. But thats not the case, sometimes the crescents are visible throughout the night.
@salihvaljevac Were viewing the moon from our dark side, away from the sun. Were constantly spinning and the moon is moving around us. SO, in the first or last quarters the moon is at a right (90º) angle, so we can only see part of it illuminated. Were seeing just part of the front lit up. Thats why you'll only see the first quarter in the west right after sunset and the last quarter just before dawn, were seeing just part of it lit up. Full moon's are always in the east as the sun sets west.
Take note, it is only an explanation of what we see here on earth. The phases of the moon can easily be explained by an earth centred model of the universe.You and I have never been in space ,we have never personally seen earth from the moon.and should question any observation we make and teach our children to question why.
+John Berger There was once a chap called Galileo who demonstrated how an Earth centered model was wrong. He proposed a heliocentric model, which, although essentially correct for the Solar System and explained the progression of the planets, is not correct in the context of our entire galaxy, the Milky Way.
Wonderful clear clip. Answered all my questions beautifully. The narration is excellent as well. But the MUSIC ... is HORRENDOUS. So distracting I kept leaping to the mute button. I know TH-cam offers horrible choices in music ... but you can opt for silence. Which in this case would have been a good idea.
if the three elements(sun,moon & earth) are in line then some of the eclipse must occur ,so they may be in same (vertical) plane but not in a line when you say that during each cycle they are in same line (two times). am I right ?
Can you explain how we see crescent moon on a night sky (like in 2:45). It seems to me that in this phase we could not see it on a night sky, but only on a day sky.
One thing I can't understand is how we see the moon in the night after the completion of third quarter till the completion of first quarter of moon's revolution? As in between that period moon is always on that side of the earth where there is day. Please explain it. I am struggling a lot to understand it.
If the Earth is between the moon and the sun, then how does the sun's light reach the moon? Wouldn't the Earth be blocking it? Or is the moon 'lower' or 'higher' than the Earth? I am confused as to how that happens. Please respond.
I have to confess, I didn't know this until now. I'm still confused, though, at 3:18 when the sun, earth, and moon are in a straight line, why is it a full moon? Why doesn't the earth block light from reaching the moon?
The orbit of the Moon is inclined relative to the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun, so most of the time, the Moon will pass above or below the Earth's shadow. At certain times of year, the two orbital planes are aligned, making eclipses possible.
When it is full moon the earth occurs between sun and moon why does it not block the light? It is because it is not in a straight line? if not how much is the degree? thanks
Thank you for these videos. Good graphical teaching aids. But please remember that your mnemonic for remembering the shapes of the waxing and waning Moon, i.e. "b" for (new)born Moon and "d" for dying (old) Moon is only valid for half the world, and there is a whole other half for which it is NOT valid. Please don't forget about us down-under. (We also use You Tube.) We see the Moon as C-O-D (the shapes of first Q, Full, and Last Q.) while you northerners see it as D-O-C.
@pvsciteach That weird... if that is the case, we should se part ot the other side of the moon. You know, our calender, a month dont have exact 27.3 days.
animation is great, explanation is solid, narrators' voice professional, ... but the sound track is beyond awful ... nevertheless, it deserves a "like"
Please help I still don't get it. How can there be a full moon when the earth is clearly blocking the sunlight. Shouldn't the moon be in the earth's shadow at that point and therefore not able to be seen?
Great explanation of the subject BUT the music destroys your good intentions -- when you have changed or replaced that noise (it's not music) with something more appropriate I will gladly send it to all my contacts.
Dan Zunko You´re seeing things in this video in 2 dimensions. In reality, the moon, sun and earth can be aligned in a top view (like the video shows) but be at different heights. The earth can block the sun from hitting the moon like you say, which is the definition of a lunar eclipse, but that doesn't happen very often.
That really helped. I just needed a simple explanation with moving pictures, ie video, but the music really distracts me from listening to you. Sorry to oppose kaylee here but no music helps concentration.
I have not seen the crescent next to the sun directly. I also saw the crescent after 3 hours of sunset. Even NASA can not explain the moon's houses on the solar system.
Why did you make such a wonderful animated movie and accompany it with head banging horrible music! Sooo weird! It would have been stellar without the music!
jeez lighten up on the music. Do you also wear an overwhelming cologne? If not, please understand its the same thing. Unnecessary overwhelming background music is like cheap overwhelming cologne!
I wondering. Earth rotate in own axis... all other out there rotate in it own axis. Why dont moon do it? Why does moon always show same "face".?? If you going to tell me it because mon rotate around earth, then i'm telling you that earth rotate around sun too... but earth still rotate in its own axis, so why dont moon do it?
Again, i have to explain... ask yourself this: How long does it take earth to go around sun once? Answer: 1 year. How long does it take earth to spin around in it own axis? Anser: 24 hour. How long does it take moon to go around earth once? Answer: 1 month Get the ide'a ??
Thanks for the explanation. My daughter appreciates it. The dual view REALLY helps.
My 5th grade class LOVED this video! Excellent for learning the phases of the moon. We enjoyed dancing while learning too :)
Thanks for posting the video. It had a description which I could actually understand. After researching the web and other YT videos, you actually hit the nail on the head (for me). I hate crappy explanations, which is what most of the web is composed of, on any topic. People are either too stupid, or too eductated to just get to the point. I hate those people for not asking themselves "Did I explain it correctly?".
Thanks for the clear, concise exposition of something which I had never quite grasped. I'm still not quite sure why we only see one side of the moon however. Keep up the good work!
Just used it for my homeschooled boys' moon phases study! The best explanation I've seen...especially the lowercase b/d way of telling waxing/waning (I've always been confused about that). Nice music, too. :)
I agree, I was trying to show my 3 year old some simple examples of astronomy and the music killed it for this vid.
Great job! This was a helpful supplement to my 6th grade son's science text book. Seeing a virtual model with your explanation makes understanding easy.
Thank you. All very clear. Like the b and d mnemonic it really helps us to remember the order of the phases.
Great music ! And it really helps me to explain to my students. Thanks a lot.
Used the video to explain to my 3 year old son how day and night occurs and why the moon is in different shapes using the pictures. Liked.
Nice job on this. You made an excellent video!
very nice graphical explanation, and i also liked the music! :)
too noisy, if I'd wanted too put a 'music' vid on, I would have done. had to switch it off , sorry
That's what I'd call creative! Finally I can recognise em! Although I don't need it for school, I need it for some other reason!
Great explanation and narration, thanks. Cheers bud :)
Excellent explanation! It was embarrassing how little I knew about it!
Excellent explanation. Great job...!
Hell yeah, I like the music that goes with it. Pretty brutal for an educational film. :)
Thanks for the visuals!
Thanks For the movie! Great for educational purposes. I read NCRT books and feel really short of learning. Please make more movie like that! Really i like dying and born learning tricks.
Good explanation. Scary music.
I like the music!
Excellent explanation!
great video, many people think they understand this but they don't (including me, I thought it's earth's shadow is casted on moon and that's why we see what we see :D)
@TruAgape123 Because of the distances involved the slight off set in positions between the earth moon and sun when viewed from a side view (assuming the view shown in this video can be called "top" view) means that the shadow of the earth is not cast on the moon, at times though when the slight "wobbles" in the orbits of the earth and moon combine in a certain way the earths shadow does fall on the moon and this is when you see a lunar eclipse.
That was one of the best descirptions I have seen. Thank you. My trick for students to remember waxing and waining is "wax on... wain off" :0)
Great video. Thanks a lot. Agree with others though -- music choice for intro and outro especially left something to be desired.
I've understood the phases of the moon for as long as i can remember. But the one thing i cant get my head around is this: the new moon and either of the crescents, is when the moon is closer to the sun than earth is. So, going from the diagram, they should be visible only on the illuminated side of Earth and just above the horison in early evening and morning, when the observer is at the edge of the shade. But thats not the case, sometimes the crescents are visible throughout the night.
So that the moon moves awaaaaaaaay.. Intergallactic Planetary, Planetary Intergallactic! Great music choice for the last part lol.
thank you for all the information! I have my assignment now! and I knew more things and understand it after all the explanations and the video! =)
@salihvaljevac Were viewing the moon from our dark side, away from the sun. Were constantly spinning and the moon is moving around us. SO, in the first or last quarters the moon is at a right (90º) angle, so we can only see part of it illuminated. Were seeing just part of the front lit up.
Thats why you'll only see the first quarter in the west right after sunset and the last quarter just before dawn, were seeing just part of it lit up. Full moon's are always in the east as the sun sets west.
Great job!!!
Good explanation, but the music is so disturbing...
U dam right very disturbing music
I was admiring the thin sliver of tonight's crescent moon and thinking about this... thank you for posting.
Peace,
Elaina
(7/23/09)
Take note, it is only an explanation of what we see here on earth. The phases of the moon can easily be explained by an earth centred model of the universe.You and I have never been in space ,we have never personally seen earth from the moon.and should question any observation we make and teach our children to question why.
+John Berger There was once a chap called Galileo who demonstrated how an Earth centered model was wrong. He proposed a heliocentric model, which, although essentially correct for the Solar System and explained the progression of the planets, is not correct in the context of our entire galaxy, the Milky Way.
i love the music choice
Great video!!!!
P.S. I thought the music was funky and appropriate :)
IT IS VERY HELPFUL.
Wonderful clear clip. Answered all my questions beautifully. The narration is excellent as well. But the MUSIC ... is HORRENDOUS. So distracting I kept leaping to the mute button. I know TH-cam offers horrible choices in music ... but you can opt for silence. Which in this case would have been a good idea.
thank you for taking the time to explain this. your graphics were wonderful but the hard rock music was a little hard on these 60 year old ears.
Awesome video, it helps
thanks for the video!
this is great!
i liked the music choice but it distracts from absorbing the info its really helped me with my children tho so thanks
if the three elements(sun,moon & earth) are in line then some of the eclipse must occur ,so they may be in same (vertical) plane but not in a line when you say that during each cycle they are in same line (two times).
am I right ?
its a good thing you have that music
Can you explain how we see crescent moon on a night sky (like in 2:45). It seems to me that in this phase we could not see it on a night sky, but only on a day sky.
Thanks! Now i can upload it to my class website as a reference. :)
Great job
Thank you
Awesome vid!!! Thanx!!
wats the song in ending
3:05 i will never understand this phase! like why the shadow on the moon is not rounded?
One thing I can't understand is how we see the moon in the night after the completion of third quarter till the completion of first quarter of moon's revolution? As in between that period moon is always on that side of the earth where there is day. Please explain it. I am struggling a lot to understand it.
Nice film... Agli music...
If the Earth is between the moon and the sun, then how does the sun's light reach the moon? Wouldn't the Earth be blocking it? Or is the moon 'lower' or 'higher' than the Earth? I am confused as to how that happens. Please respond.
ok, i got a question:
How long does it take moon to spin around in it own axis?
Anybody know?
it really helps me alot! tnx
A trick to help you remember: think of the movie karate kid "wax on, wax off"
= WAX ON, WANE OFF!
good work
excellent, thanks so much
I have to confess, I didn't know this until now. I'm still confused, though, at 3:18 when the sun, earth, and moon are in a straight line, why is it a full moon? Why doesn't the earth block light from reaching the moon?
The orbit of the Moon is inclined relative to the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun, so most of the time, the Moon will pass above or below the Earth's shadow. At certain times of year, the two orbital planes are aligned, making eclipses possible.
THANK YOU! I finally get it!
nickstoli No problem :-)
Teale Britstra I was just thinking the same thing lol. Thank you for explaining it simply.
Orbit of the moon is about 5°tilting with respect to the earth plane
I liked the music!
The music was needed?
When it is full moon the earth occurs between sun and moon why does it not block the light? It is because it is not in a straight line? if not how much is the degree? thanks
informative about the Lunar Cycle.
tres bonnes explications merci
@jananmasead Moon orbits above and below the ecliptic. We just had a lunar eclipse the other morning. Next one in 2014.
Why lunar eclipse do not occur every month if during every month the sun earth and moon are on straight line?
Why the music?
Thank you for these videos. Good graphical teaching aids. But please remember that your mnemonic for remembering the shapes of the waxing and waning Moon, i.e. "b" for (new)born Moon and "d" for dying (old) Moon is only valid for half the world, and there is a whole other half for which it is NOT valid. Please don't forget about us down-under. (We also use You Tube.) We see the Moon as C-O-D (the shapes of first Q, Full, and Last Q.) while you northerners see it as D-O-C.
this video helps thanks
thank you!!
@pvsciteach That weird... if that is the case, we should se part ot the other side of the moon.
You know, our calender, a month dont have exact 27.3 days.
animation is great, explanation is solid, narrators' voice professional, ... but the sound track is beyond awful ... nevertheless, it deserves a "like"
thank you!
Please help I still don't get it. How can there be a full moon when the earth is clearly blocking the sunlight. Shouldn't the moon be in the earth's shadow at that point and therefore not able to be seen?
great intro music
Great explanation of the subject BUT the music destroys your good intentions -- when you have changed or replaced that noise (it's not music) with something more appropriate I will gladly send it to all my contacts.
How can I see a full moon if the Earth is between the Sun and Moon? Why diesn't the Earth block the Sun from hitting the Moon?
Dan Zunko You´re seeing things in this video in 2 dimensions. In reality, the moon, sun and earth can be aligned in a top view (like the video shows) but be at different heights. The earth can block the sun from hitting the moon like you say, which is the definition of a lunar eclipse, but that doesn't happen very often.
Also, the sun is so gigantic compared to earth that even if they were on the same plane its light would still hit the moon.
awsome
b and d thing really helps. thanks.
intro hard core music annoying but rest is perfect.
thx so helpful
Nice explanation, but music was distracting.
That really helped. I just needed a simple explanation with moving pictures, ie video, but the music really distracts me from listening to you. Sorry to oppose kaylee here but no music helps concentration.
Just put the volume down
I like the added Beastie Boys sound track.
Good. Soften music track; especially when your voice track is playing... If your music is not adding to the video then it is taken away.
good but the hard screaming rock music detracts a bit
Please redo this video and take that awful music out of this video.
I have not seen the crescent next to the sun directly. I also saw the crescent after 3 hours of sunset. Even NASA can not explain the moon's houses on the solar system.
Why did you make such a wonderful animated movie and accompany it with head banging horrible music! Sooo weird! It would have been stellar without the music!
jeez lighten up on the music. Do you also wear an overwhelming cologne? If not, please understand its the same thing. Unnecessary overwhelming background music is like cheap overwhelming cologne!
5:36 it wasn't
This is the same guy that did Zeigeist the movie.
I would have liked your video but please drop the music
I wondering.
Earth rotate in own axis... all other out there rotate in it own axis.
Why dont moon do it? Why does moon always show same "face".??
If you going to tell me it because mon rotate around earth, then i'm telling you that earth rotate around sun too... but earth still rotate in its own axis, so why dont moon do it?
Again, i have to explain... ask yourself this:
How long does it take earth to go around sun once?
Answer: 1 year.
How long does it take earth to spin around in it own axis?
Anser: 24 hour.
How long does it take moon to go around earth once?
Answer: 1 month
Get the ide'a ??
it is 27.3 days cycle not 29.5
THAT NOISY MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!