Moon Rising Time Tonight (2024)

FAQs

What time is the Moon going to rise tonight? ›

The best times to see a daytime Moon are perhaps during the first and last quarter phases, when the Moon is high enough above the horizon and at about 90 degrees from the Sun in the sky. This helps make the Sun's reflected light bright enough to see as it reflects off of the Moon.

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.

A first quarter Moon rises at noon, reaches its highest point at sunset and sets at midnight. When the Moon is full, we can see it from sunset until sunrise, that is overnight. A last quarter Moon, begins to be seen at midnight. It reaches its highest point at sunrise and sets at noon.

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.

Waxing Crescent

Today's moon is 44.24% visible and is crescent.

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 only times you won't be able to see it during the day are near a new Moon, when it is positioned too close to the Sun in the sky to be seen, and near a full Moon, when it rises at sunset and sets at sunrise, so is only visible during the hours of darkness.

The Moon is currently in the constellation of Scorpius. The current Right Ascension is 16h 48m 51s and the Declination is -28° 09' 54” .

When can you drink moon water? ›

Typically, this water is collected during the full moon or purnima, as it is believed that the moon's energy is at its prime. But, you can make it at any time of the month, when the moon is visible.

It takes about 3 days for a spacecraft to reach the Moon. During that time a spacecraft travels at least 240,000 miles (386,400 kilometers) which is the distance between Earth and the Moon. The specific distance depends on the specific path chosen.

Illum. 12:40 P.M. 5:38 P.M.

The moon rises 50 minutes later each day. So, it only seems like there is no pattern to the Earth-moon relationship. You just have to pay much closer attention to the moonrise and moonset relationship because of the 50-minute time difference. Also, it's harder to track when the moon rises during daylight hours.

The First Quarter Moon rises in the middle of the day and can be seen in the daytime sky. Half of the side of the Moon facing Earth is illuminated by the Sun. The First Quarter Moon is also seen against a starry night sky until it sets below the western horizon at approximately midnight, leaving the sky very dark.

The Moon's current phase for today and tonight is a Waxing Crescent Phase. Best seen in the west after the sun dips below the horizon at sunset.

The way the Moon looks to us is continually changing. It moves across the sky rapidly over the course of a night. And from night to night it rises and falls at different times and in different parts of the sky.

The Old Farmer's Almanac, which first began publishing the names for the full moons in the 1930s, states that some Native American tribes named the full moon in June as the "strawberry moon" to match the short harvest season for strawberries.