GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -– It’s a waxing moon. – As viewed from anywhere on Earth, a first quarter moon appears at its highest in the sky at sunset. It rises around noon and sets around midnight. – It’s called a quarter moon, but, from Earth, it looks half-illuminated, like half a pie.

Detailed explanation-2: -The third quarter is commonly known as the half moon. When the opposite half of the moon is illuminated it is known as the third quarter. It appears after waning gibbous and before the waning crescent.

Detailed explanation-3: -The crescent Moon waxes, or appears to grow fatter, each night. When half of the Moon’s disc is illuminated, we call it the first quarter moon. This name comes from the fact that the Moon is now one-quarter of the way through the lunar month.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Moon is now a quarter of the way through its monthly journey and you see half of its illuminated side. People may casually call this a half moon, but remember, that’s not really what you’re witnessing in the sky. You’re seeing just a slice of the entire Moon ― half of the illuminated half.