Opposition Of The Moon And Venus

It was recently the beginning of Ramadan, as by the sighting of the new crescent moon. The moon and Venus are actually moving in opposite directions, when the moon is between the earth and the sun.

The rotation of the earth, which is eastward, the revolution of the moon around the earth, the orbit of the earth around the sun, and the orbit of Venus around the sun, are all in the same direction. This direction is counter-clockwise, if seen from above the earth's north pole.

In the following diagram, the arrows show the movements. The rotation of the earth and the revolution of the moon around the earth. The green circle is the earth, as seen from above the north pole. The small black circle is the moon. The red circle at the top, S, is the sun. The blue circle, V, is Venus, which revolves around the sun in the same direction as the earth.

But what this means is that the moon and Venus are moving in opposite directions when the moon is between the earth and the sun. On earth, the green circle in the diagram, D is the day side and N is the night side. The eastward rotation is shown by the arrows. Point 1 is the point of sunrise and Point 2 is the point of sunset. 

The phase of the moon that we see depends on the angle between the earth, the moon and, the sun. The new moon is when the moon is directly between the earth and the sun, represented by the circle N. The full moon is when the moon is directly on the opposite side of the earth from the sun, represented by the circle F.

Venus is closer to the sun than the earth so that it is moving faster than the earth in their orbits and Venus passes the earth. This changes when we can see Venus. Since Venus is closer to the sun than the earth, it is never seen in the middle of the night. It is seen either after sunset or before sunrise. This is how to tell Venus apart from Jupiter.

The diagram shows how the moon and Venus are moving in opposite directions as the moon passes between the earth and the sun. The result is that we see a crescent moon in the east, before sunrise, and then, after it has passed in front of the sun, we see a crescent moon again. But this time it is in the west, after sunset.

Venus is the opposite. We see it in the west, after sunset, and then, after it has passed earth in their orbits around the sun, we see it again, now in the east before sunrise.

This isn't anything breakthrough but I haven't seen it pointed out before.