Posting this ahead of future discussions about why Q pic ROT1 depicts roughly (at this time) late evening between midnight to 1am-ish.
An understanding that each moon phase represents a definite time relation to the sun is important going forward.
For example:
Waxing crescent- always follows sun by 45 degrees.
Waning crescent- always leads the sun by 45 degrees.
First qtr moon (you see left 1/2 dark, rt side is lit) always 90 degrees behind the sun.
Third qtr moon(you see left 1/2 lit, rt side dark) always leads the sun by 90 degrees
Full moon- always 180 opposite Moon
New moon- always 0 degrees (near the sun)
Waxing Gibbous- always follows sun by 135 degrees.
Waning Gibbous- always leads the sun by 135 degrees.
To picture 135 degrees, just think of a 90 degree angle plus a 45 degree angle.
Some things to remember: It takes the Moon roughly 3 hours to transit 45 degrees of the sky. Roughly an hour for 15 degrees.
The Waning Gibbous Moon is usually around 135 degrees in the night sky at midnight.
Picture in your mind a circle. The bottom of the circle is North and represents 0 (zero) degrees. East is on the left of tge circle at 90 degrees. SouthEast is at 135 degrees.
South is 180 degrees.
For later discussion about tides- this is why we seem to be seeing a high tide correlation in the wee hours around 3ish when the Moon reaches its peak height in the sky at due South (aka the Meridian).
This is why I have said that we are seeing a tide in LisaMI6 around 6 meters but on its way higher. A rising tide.
A while back, anon asked about Spring tides. Did not have an answer back then. Posting info with a tide graphic which may also give anons an understanding why a high tide should be be expected to coincide with the Moon at its highest (aka- at the Meridian). Open source stats are consistently putting high tides we are looking at in our target dates as occurring close to 3 hours after the SE 12am-ish position of the Waning Gibbous moon.
What we are seeing is agreement with open source data. This is good. From appearances, it is starting to look like our ROT1 pic is indeed after business hours for the restaurant ships, and either a weekday or Sunday, but not on a Friday or a Saturday.