What Time Does The Moon Rise At My Location (2024)

FAQs

How do you figure out when the Moon will rise? ›

Moonrise (and, incidentally, the time of high tide) occurs about 50 minutes later each day than the day before. To determine the moonrise time for each day of the month, add 50 minutes each day after a phase or subtract 50 minutes each day before a new phase.

Waning Crescent

Today's moon is 17.97% visible and is decrescent. 4 days left to the next phase New Moon.

Since the moon is constantly moving in its orbit around the Earth, a new moon only lasts for a moment. However, to be able to see the moon is another matter; we usually must wait at least 18-24 hours after the new moon to allow it to move far enough away from the sun.

The current Right Ascension is 10h 22m 38s and the Declination is +12° 53' 06” . Right now, from the selected location (Greenwich, UK), The Moon can be observed looking in the East-South-East direction at an altitude of 32.28 degrees above the horizon (view The Moon position on a interactive sky map).

It is midnight when the moon is at its highest point in the sky looking south. It is 3 a.m. when the moon is half way up the sky between the western horizon and the highest point the moon can get looking south.

The Moon rises 30 to 70 minutes (should be a fixed number, about 50 minutes, if it's the same 13 degrees) later each day/night than the day/night before, due to the fact that the Moon moves 13 degrees every day. Hence, the Earth must move 13 degrees after completing one rotation for the Moon to be visible.

Full moon rises about sunset. Last quarter (half moon) rises about midnight. On average, the moon rises about 50 minutes later each night, so if you saw it last week, you can calculate the time it'll be in the same part of the sky this week: observation time + (50 X number of days)/60.

The moon's motion through our sky is similar to that of the sun, but different: Like the sun, the moon rises in the east and sets in the west (with some exceptions for observers in earth's extreme northern and southern regions).

A last quarter moon, the seventh of the eight phases of the moon. Depicts the moon as a cratered disc, its left side half illuminated in gold or silver, its remainder dark. May be used to represent the moon more generally, nighttime, outer space, and astronomy.

The Moon's current phase for today and tonight is a Waxing Crescent Phase.

Why is tonight's moon orange? ›

An orange moon means the shorter wavelengths of light are being filtered away. This could be due to the low position on the horizon causing the light to go through more atmosphere, smoke in the air, or pollution.

Today's lunar phase in Los Angeles, United States, the moon is in 🌑 the New Moon phase, with 2.24% illumination, with an age of 28.12 days.