Does the moon rise every night?
Hi Sad! No, it doesn’t always rise every night. 1) About half of the days each month, the moon rises during daylight hours, so technically it doesn’t rise at night those days. It rises during the day. 2) There are usually one or two days a month with no moon rise at all. The moonrises come, on average about 24 hours 49 minutes apart. That means that, at the times when the moon does rise during the evening, it will get later and later with each passing night. One night, it will rise after 11 p.m. The next night, it will not rise until after midnight. By that time, it will have missed an entire calendar day. For example, here in New York, the moon will rise at 11:54 p.m. on January 28th. The next moonrise will happen at 12:56 a.m., but on January 30th. There is no moonrise on the 29th (according to clocks in New York). 3) Around the time of new moon, you cannot see the moon. While astronomically the moon rises a few minutes before the sun, it is invisible to any observer. 4) If you were
