Whois & Analysis for tides4fishing.com

The lunar phase or phase of the moon is the shape of the illuminated (sunlit) portion of the Moon as seen by an observer on Earth.

The lunar phases change cyclically as the Moon orbits the Earth, according to the changing positions of the Moon and Sun relative to the Earth.

The Moon's rotation is tidally locked by the Earth's gravity, therefore the same lunar surface always faces Earth.

This face is variously sunlit depending on the position of the Moon in its orbit.

Therefore, the portion of this hemisphere that is visible to an observer on Earth can vary from about 100% (full moon) to 0% (new moon).

The lunar terminator is the boundary between the illuminated and darkened hemispheres.

Each of the four "intermediate" lunar phases (see below) is roughly seven days (~7.4 days) but this varies slightly due to the elliptical shape of the Moon's orbit.

Aside from some craters near the lunar poles such as Shoemaker, all parts of the Moon see around 14.77 days of sunlight, followed by 14.77 days of "night".

(The side of the Moon facing away from the Earth is sometimes called the "dark side of the Moon", although that is a misnomer).

Tide tables, sometimes called tide charts, are used for tidal prediction and show the daily times and heights of high water and low water, usually for a particular location.

Tide heights at intermediate times (between high and low water) can be approximately calculated using the rule of twelfths or more accurately by using a published tidal curve for the location.

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of the Earth.

Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.

Most weather phenomena occur in the lowest level of the atmosphere, the troposphere, just below the stratosphere.

Weather refers to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity, whereas climate is the term for the averaging of atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time.

When used without qualification, "weather" is generally understood to mean the weather of Earth.

A fish is any member of a group of animals that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.

They form a sister group to the tunicates, together forming the olfactores.

Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups.

Tetrapods emerged within lobe-finned fishes, so cladistically they are fish as well.

However, traditionally fish are rendered obsolete or paraphyletic by excluding the tetrapods (i.e., the amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals which all descended from within the same ancestry).

Because in this manner the term "fish" is defined negatively as a paraphyletic group, it is not considered a formal taxonomic grouping in systematic biology.

The traditional term pisces (also ichthyes) is considered a , but not a phylogenetic classification.