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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Imagine a crescent moon as an archery bow. If you string the bow and notch an arrow so that it bisects the bow, the arrow always points towards the sun. An evening crescent (just after new) always faces west. A morning crescent always faces east. In the northern hemisphere that means the evening crescent faces right, the morning crescent faces left. A crescent moon always faces down if the sun is below the horizon at sunset or sunrise, as the case may be. A crescent moon never faces up at night.
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