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Lesson - Moon Phases
**The Lunar Phases** I New Moon 2 First/Waxing Crescent 3 First Quarter 4 Waxing Gibbous Moon 5 Full Moon 6 Waning Gibbous or “Disseminating” Moon 7 Last Quarter 8 Waning Crescent or “Balsamic” Moon 9 And back to the New Moon Each stage lasts approximately three and a half days. Pasted from <[]>
 * Four main lunar phases divide each month — New, First Quarter, Full and Last Quarter.
 * But, since the Moon is constantly either waxing or waning as it travels round the Earth, changing shape each night, its cycle can be broken down further, into eight obvious stages.
 * The first four stages are the waxing or increasing moons
 * the next four are the waning or decreasing moons
 * the ninth stage brings the cycle back to the beginning again, as follows

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