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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Yes, we’re standing on a sphere, and Moon is floating somewhere out there off the side of the sphere.
Depending on where you are on Earth, you’re looking at Moon from a different angle.
Illustration:
https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/4/2019/11/moon-cover-2fa5902.jpg
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