I live in Australia and when the moon isn’t full it always appears to fill up from the bottom up. So a new moon looks like a croissant with the curved side facing down. But on northern hemisphere flags like Turkey for example it appears as a croissant standing up with the curve facing left. Does the moon appear to wax and wane from top to bottom or left to right in different parts of the world?
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The real answer is — the crescent changes from a U shape (or curve down) to a C shape over the course of winter to summer Due to the earth’s tilt.
The degree of effect is based on how far from the equator the observer is.
The difference between N/S hemispheres, it’s likely you’re comparing locations at different (inverse) latitudes. Melbourne is fairly close to Madrid, so much of Europe is more extreme
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