Worse, the motion of the sun, moon, and stars would be right to left, not left to right.

But even then, the crescent moon is still in the wrong part of the sky. So in that sense, some of the Doodle might be saved, because now the animation starts with the new moon, not the old one, and the next phase would be half-lit, then gibbous. The new moon will have the horns pointing to the right, not left, as you face the setting sun. Travel south, to the Southern Hemisphere, and things get reversed because you’re upside-down compared with the Northern Hemisphere. I’ll note that this gets a bit more complicated, because the Earth is a ball, too. So the next phase after the old moon is actually the new moon, a thin crescent with the horns pointing to the left. As the moon orbits the Earth a bit more, it gets nearer the sun, then starts to pull away to the left. The old moon is nearly aligned with the sun (on the right of the sun from the Northern Hemisphere). That’s not correct the next phase should be the new moon. * But the next phase we see is the gibbous moon. As I pointed out, the Doodle starts with the old moon (the horns point to the right).

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