The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

Waning gibbous: More than half of the moon's face ... Approximately every day the moon delays its rising (and setting) by about 50 minutes, and this explains why the waxing becomes better visible ...

The 'full moon' phase is as close as we come to seeing the sun's illumination of the entire day side of the moon. In 2025, ...

Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is just by looking up.

The second full moon of the year − appropriately called the snow moon − will reach its peak Wednesday evening.

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere).

Following is a list of different lunar phases, moonrise and moonset timings for each day in the month of February ... 7:09 am February 12 Full Moon 5:39 pm Feb 13, 7:33 am February 13 Waning Gibbous 6 ...

The images below show the day-by-day phases of the Moon in ... First Quarter, waxing gibbous, Full Moon, waning gibbous, Last Quarter, and waning crescent. A cycle starting from one Full Moon ...

Around midnight tonight in the east, a 55%-lit waning gibbous moon will be just a tenth of a degree from Spica, the brightest star in the constellation of Virgo and about 250 light-years distant.

waxing gibbous, full Moon, waning gibbous, third quarter and finally waning crescent. This cycle repeats once every 29.5 days. Earth's only natural satellite is simply called ‘the Moon ...