What direction does the earth rotate?
As viewed from above the north pole, the earth rotates in a counter clockwise direction. A good explanation is to say that as you are carried around by the earth’s rotation, the eastern horizon ‘goes down’ and exposes the sun. Similarly, the western horizon ‘goes up’ to hide it. The rising and setting are only ‘apparent’ motions due to your own motion with the rotating earth. When you see the phases of the moon you are seeing it progress from night to day and back again. Watch each night from waxing crescent on, and you will see that more and more of the surface becomes lighted as dawn progresses across the moon’s face. After the full moon you can see the dark of night do the same thing. I assume that you are talking about Solar Local Noon . It occurs when the sun is over your meridian. At that time it will be directly south of you and at its highest point for the day. It usually will not match ‘clock noon’ because most of us do not live on the central meridian of our time zone and, in
