Moon’s Current Phase

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious, you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else was born.

From MoonGiant.com

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waning Crescent phase. This phase is best viewed just before the sunrise in the western sky. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. During this part of the Moon cycle, the Moon is getting closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing the Earth with only a small edge of the Moon being illuminated. It can also be a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the edge where the illuminated portion meets the dark side, the craters and mountains cast long shadows making them easier to observe with a telescope or binoculars.

Visit the August 2023 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Crescent Phase

The Waning Crescent on August 9 has an illumination of 39%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On August 9 the Moon is 23.19 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

Phase Details

Useful Moon Resources

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

If you need to calculate the planetary positions in either hemisphere you can use this for a specific use and time in your local time zone, click on this link

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For Your Local Time and Date 

Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions

Northwestern Hemisphere

This local time is in Los Angeles, California, USA

August 09, 2023
11:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM PDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Cardinal:7
Fixed:5
Mutable:7

Northern Hemisphere

This local time is in Chicago, Illinois, USA

August 09, 2023
09:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Cardinal:7
Fixed:5
Mutable:7

Northeastern Hemisphere

This local time is in Frankfurt, Germany, Europe

9 August 2023
02:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)