The Māori, however, was very accurate in his knowledge of the state of the moon, the appearance of the stars and their situation, which acted as his guide in many voyages across the ocean. Others again give different explanations, but none are satisfactory, therefore we are obliged to leave it in obscurity. The names omutu and mutu-whenua mean the same thing, that is, the ending of the moon’s night. The second, omutu, is an alternative of the name mutu-whenua or vice versa, which was denoted by the respective stars. Other authorities say that two of these nights do not count in the moon’s age these are the huna and the omutu for the first being denoted by a special star (the name of which, huna, means hidden). Similarly, by the thirtieth night (mutu-whenua), for the moon has then already disappeared underground. “They say that the whiro (first night), only the reflection of the moon can be seen, and the moon does not appear until the tirea (second night). Some Māori authorities contend that the moon disappears underground and reappears after travelling for two days underground. How the Māori applied Marama’s thirty nights to fit in with the proper age of the moon has not been made clear. Māori have between 28 and 32 names for the phases of the Moon. The time it takes for the Moon to return to the same phase in the sky is 29.53 days. Craters near the terminator are labeled, as are Apollo landing sites, maria, and other albedo features in sunlight. In addition, this visualization shows the moon’s orbit position, sub-Earth and subsolar points, and distance from the Earth at true scale. This 4K visualization shows the Moon’s phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2020, as viewed from the Southern Hemisphere. The lunar phases gradually change over a synodic month, as the orbital positions of the Moon around Earth, and Earth around the Sun, shift. The Moon’s appearance depends on the position of the Moon for the Sun as seen from the Earth.
The synodic month is the average period of the Moon’s orbit concerning the line joining the Sun and Earth. The lunar phase or Moon phase is the shape of the directly sunlit portion of the Moon, as viewed from Earth.
The Moon travels around Earth in 29.53 days – this is the period of the lunar phases, also known as the synodic month. From our view on Earth, these tides coincide with certain phases since they occur when the Moon reaches specific positions in its orbit. When the Sun is at a right angle to the Moon, moderate tides result. How the phases of the Moon are measured: the synodic month When Earth, the Moon and the Sun line up, the combined gravitational influence causes very high or very low tides to occur.
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