From southern parts of the UK, the initial partial phase and the beginning of totality were expected to be visible, with the Moon dropping down into the western sky as dawn approached.

在英国南部地区，由于随着黎明的到来月亮从西边缓缓落下，只能看到起初的部分月相和月全食的开始阶段，即初亏。

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Your next chance to see the Moon this large and bright, this time at full phase within only a few minutes of lunar perigee, will be next year on May 6.

下一个看见这么又大又亮的满月的机会，将出现在明年的5月6日，而且它最圆的相位出现的时间只有近地点附近的数分钟而已。

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From Mercury, both the Earth and its comparatively large moon will always appear as small circles of reflected sunlight and will never show a crescent phase.

从水星的角度，地球和她相当大的月球看起来总是两个反射太阳光的小圆盘，从来不会出现类似月相的变化。

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The Economist can take solace that the original picture showing the waxing phase on the left side of the moon in Rio was indeed correct.

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Unfortunately, his mnemonic would only work in the northern hemisphere, where the moon is observed in the southern sky with the right side of the moon sunward during the waxing phase and the left side sunward during the waning phase.

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That phase will last about three months, as the Moon completes three rotations beneath the orbits of the two satellites.

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