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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Take a look at [this diagram](https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2018-11/TheMoonsOrientation.jpg).
Since the moon’s orientation stays the same but people’s orientation essentially flips depending on which hemisphere you’re standing on means the moon looks like it’s flipping as well.
Edit: whoever made the diagram didn’t quite get it correct though, the small moon images are rotated 180degrees rather than being flipped / mirrored as they should be.
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