TheBanyanTree: The Equatorial Moon

[Julie Anna Teague]

Quoting auntiesash <auntiesash at gmail.com>:


> So, for us Northern hemisphere types, a waxing moon is "a sliver on the
> right growing bigger every night".  If we look up at the moon, we are
> looking south, and the illuminated portion is on our right.  If we lie down
> and point our feet so that we are facing north, then the illuminated portion
> is on our left.

I've always used the birthing/dying (b/d) method to tell waxing or 
waning.  If waxing, or birthing, then and like the small "b", the round 
part (i.e., the illuminated part) is on the right.  If it's waxing, or 
dying, then like the small "d", the round part is on the left.  I've 
never noticed that this changed whether I was lying down with my feet 
pointing north or south.  But of course I'll have to try this post 
haste. Unless, like the Woofess, are pullin' my leg.