Browse through this site's excellent archive of past questions and answers. Here's another place to find planetary cycle information. The earth always spins eastward. It is because of this easterly rotation that we can see the sun coming up in the east every day and going down in the west. Enter the name of your town to calculate the exact sunrise and sunset and moonrise and moonset for your area.
Tides are the effect that the moon and the sun have on the oceans.
They're the daily rise and fall of the level of the oceans' waters. High and low tides occur about 6 hours apart. The distance in height between high and low tide is called the tidal range. When the earth, moon, and sun are in a line, the combined pull of the moon and sun causes the highest and lowest tides. These are called spring tides.