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Conference hydra::dejavu

Title:	Psychic Phenomena
Notice:	Please read note 1.0-1.* before writing
Moderator:	JARETH::PAINTER

Created:	Wed Jan 22 1986
Last Modified:	Tue May 27 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2143
Total number of notes:	41773

1891.0. "Lunatic Info?!" by VAXRIO::LUCIAMARIA () Wed Oct 27 1993 08:47

    I've been checking some old entries here on Moon/Lunar effects,etc.
    What I need to know - and couldn't find in English dictionaries - is if
    there's a word/expression for the opposite of crescent moon.
    
     In Portuguese we have lua crescente(crescent moon) and lua minguante
    (minguante=lessening or something like this).
    
    Some pure empirical lunar info (I did not find anything mentioned
    before like this about moon) from Brazil ... 
    
    
    People tend not to give kids/animals any medicine to kill parasites during
    lua crescente but only during minguante.
    
    People (especially men) tend not to have their hair cut during lua
    crescente if they want to keep it short for a good period of time.
    
    Crops are planted during lua crescente.
    
    L�cia

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1891.1		HOO78C::ANDERSON	Oh you are standing up!	`Wed Oct 27 1993 09:16`	9
	They are called New Moon 1st Quarter Full moon 2nd Quarter Although the last on is sometimes called an Old Moon. Jamie.
1891.2	Gibbous	CADSYS::COOPER	Topher Cooper	`Wed Oct 27 1993 09:17`	3
	...as in "Gibbous this day ..." :-) (The word is for real). Topher
1891.3	Still looking up	VAXRIO::LUCIAMARIA		`Wed Oct 27 1993 09:43`	7
	And what's a less quarter? Tks again. L�cia
1891.4		HOO78C::ANDERSON	Oh you are standing up!	`Wed Oct 27 1993 10:03`	4
	Gibbous is more than half but not full. I thought she was referring to the second crescent. Jamie.
1891.5		CALS::GELINEAU		`Wed Oct 27 1993 10:49`	8
	Besides full, new, quarter, and half there is: waxing gibbous waning gibbous waxing crescent waning crescent -- angela
1891.6	More than you wanted to know, probably.	CADSYS::COOPER	Topher Cooper	`Wed Oct 27 1993 11:25`	29
	Waxing means "getting bigger", waning means "getting smaller". There are, of course also the "waxing half" and "waning half". The full cycle is, in this terminology: New Waxing Crescent Waxing Half Waxing Gibbous Full Waning Gibbous Waning Half Waning Crescent (New again) There seems to be some disagreement as to whether the "New moon" means the slimmest visible crescent or the point of total enshadowment (also called "the dark of the Moon" though that may also refer to any time at night when the moon is below the horizon). There are various other terminologies, for example, "First Quarter" For the period from "New" to "Waxing Half"; Second Quarter from "Waxing Half" to "Full"; Third Quarter from "Full" to "Waning Half"; and Fourth or Final Quarter from "Waning Half" to "New". I've also seen the phase of the moon described in terms of days since the new moon either starting with the new moon as day 1 or the new moon as day 0. A precise system is the angle (degrees or radians) between the sun and the moon. Topher
1891.7		HOO78C::ANDERSON	Oh you are standing up!	`Wed Oct 27 1993 11:25`	4
	What do we call it when the moon is totally in its own shadow, I refer to the time between the old Moon and the new? Jamie.
1891.8	just a guess	TNPUBS::PAINTER	remembering Amber	`Wed Oct 27 1993 12:06`	4
	5 o'clock shadow? Cindy