non-birding question

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non-birding question

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Subject:	non-birding question
From:	(John Leonard)
Date:	Mon, 13 Oct 1997 12:01:44 +1000 (EST)

re the moon in the s. hemisphere.

I seem to remember that in the n. hemisphere the waxing moon was ) and the
waning (. However here the direction which it points seems to be reversed,
is this correct? Astronomers, and anyone else, please comment.




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