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Robert F Casey wrote:
> 
> In <5bk1q1$h9a$1@marina.cinenet.net> cberry@cinenet.net (Craig Berry)
> writes:
> >
> >Robbie Baldock (rcb@ednet.co.uk) wrote:
> >: Anyone know why the Moon's phases seem to be racing at the moment?!
> >: My ephemeris says it should be at first quarter this evening but
> it's
> >: plainly half-full!
> >
> This bugs me a bit too.  It's just screwey termonology, how "quarter
> moon" = "half moon".  At least noone calls a crescent moon a quarter
> moon because only 1/4 of its Earthside surface is lit by the Sun.  Now
> that would be a real pain in the *ss.
> 
> Does anyone call the other half moon (the one a week after full moon)
> the three quarter moon?

No but of course they call it a last quarter moon. The 1st quarter moon
marks the end of the first quarter of the moon's cycle (couning from
new) and the last quarter marks the start of the last quarter of the
cycle.
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