Mother Moon

I've been wondering why the moon seems to be out for so long the last few days. It hangs in roughly the same plane as the sun, so shouldn't 6 hrs sunlight mean about the same for the moon? Then I realized: DUH, when it's full, the moon is on the opposite side of us from the sun, so the same tilt that shortens the days up here by leaning us away from the sun has the inverse effect on our exposure to the full moon--ie, Alaska is leaning toward it. Ergo, 6 hrs sunlight = 18 hrs moonlight. Hello mother!