Moon's Orbit
The amount of time for the Moon to do a full orbit.
What are 27.3 days?
Not to be confused with its more common definition, this process happens when the Moon appears to get brighter.
What is Waxing?
When an opaque object covers an area of light, leaving a complete absence of it.
What is a Shadow?
Known in superstitions as a bad omen, this event happens when the Moon blocks the Sun from the Earth.
What is the Solar Eclipse?
The name of the Indigenous tribe that worshipped and used the Moon regularly for their culture.
What are the Meriam Mir People?
The name of the circular/ovular path that a either a natural or manmade satellite takes due to a celestital object's gravity.
What is the Elliptical Orbit?
When the light of the Moon fully illuminates its whole.
What is the Full Moon?
Something that doesn't have the property of being transparent.
What is being Opaque?
When the Moon gets shaded because of the Earth from the Sun, causing the Moon to turn into a ghastly colour.
What is the Lunar Eclipse?
The name of either the Moon or Month from the Meriam Mir People.
What is Meb?
When a celestital's object orbit and rotation are equal.
What is the Synchronous Rotation?
When the Moon illuminates more than a semi-circle, but never enough for a Full Moon.
What is the Gibbous Moon?
The section of a shadow when some light is recieved through it, making it not nearly as dark.
What is the Penumbra?
The position where the next Lunar Eclipse is supposed to place.
What is the US East Coast?
In most Aboriginal/Torres Strait cultures, they explained the Sun and Moon, and these figures would meet up, explaining eclipses.
What is Man and the Woman?
A set of days until the Moon to return to its original place and against the same location.
What is the Sidereal Month?
The Moon phase at the start of a Month.
What is the New Moon?
The section of a shadow that completely obscures any light from coming through.
What is the Umbra?
Due to fewer wavelengths reaching the Moon, a Lunar Eclipse is known commonly because of the striking colours.
What is the Blood Moon?
Within the Indigenous culture, Lunar Eclipses were thought of as terrible, especially in a group in Western Australia.
What is the Beagle Bay group?
The result of the Moon's gravity on Earth changing the patterns of the ocean.
What are the Tides?
A familiar shape, with it being when the Moon phase is less than a semi-circle, from taking 0.01% to 49.9% of the Moon.
What is the Cresent Moon?
The section of the shadow that extends farther than the Umbra and makes the apparent light source larger.
What is the Antumbra?
A way to see the full Solar Eclipse, this is a trail where the Moon is perfectly blocking the Sun, upon the Earth
What is the Path of Totality?
Stories that the early First Nations used to explain natural occurrences with storytelling and to express their beliefs.
What is the Dreamtime?