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.
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 11 has an illumination of 21%. 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 11 the Moon is 25.09 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
Phase: Waning Crescent
Illumination: 21%
Moon Age: 25.09 days
Moon Angle: 0.50
Moon Distance: 394,537.03 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 151,607,999.32 km
Useful Moon Resources
Check the weather before a night of Moon gazing at weather.com
For a list of all the current meteor showers visit American Meteor Society
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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Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions
Northwestern Hemisphere
This local time is in Los Angeles, California, USA
August 11, 2023
11:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM PDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)
Sun:19 Leo 01
Moon:00 Cancer 04
Mercury:16 Virgo 16
Venus:21 Leo 24 Rx
Mars:20 Virgo 06
Jupiter:14 Taurus 41
Saturn:04 Pisces 59 Rx
Uranus:22 Taurus 57
Neptune:27 Pisces 14 Rx
Pluto:28 Capricorn 39 Rx
True Lunar Node:27 Aries 44 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:28 Aries 24 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):24 Leo 07
Chiron:19 Aries 48 Rx
Ceres:16 Libra 24
Pallas:14 Virgo 58
Juno:27 Cancer 58
Vesta:19 Gemini 37
Eris:25 Aries 13 Rx
Fire:7
Earth:6
Air:2
Water:4
Cardinal:8
Fixed:5
Mutable:6
Northern Hemisphere
This local time is in Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 11, 2023
09:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)
Sun:18 Leo 56
Moon:29 Gemini 03
Mercury:16 Virgo 12
Venus:21 Leo 27 Rx
Mars:20 Virgo 02
Jupiter:14 Taurus 40
Saturn:04 Pisces 59 Rx
Uranus:22 Taurus 57
Neptune:27 Pisces 14 Rx
Pluto:28 Capricorn 39 Rx
True Lunar Node:27 Aries 45 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:28 Aries 24 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):24 Leo 07
Chiron:19 Aries 48 Rx
Ceres:16 Libra 22
Pallas:14 Virgo 55
Juno:27 Cancer 55
Vesta:19 Gemini 35
Eris:25 Aries 13 Rx
Fire:7
Earth:6
Air:3
Water:3
Cardinal:7
Fixed:5
Mutable:7
Northeastern Hemisphere
This local time is in Frankfurt, Germany, Europe
11 August 2023
02:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)
Sun:18 Leo 40
Moon:25 Gemini 29
Mercury:15 Virgo 57
Venus:21 Leo 38 Rx
Mars:19 Virgo 51
Jupiter:14 Taurus 39
Saturn:05 Pisces 00 Rx
Uranus:22 Taurus 57
Neptune:27 Pisces 15 Rx
Pluto:28 Capricorn 39 Rx
True Lunar Node:27 Aries 47 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:28 Aries 25 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):24 Leo 05
Chiron:19 Aries 48 Rx
Ceres:16 Libra 16
Pallas:14 Virgo 47
Juno:27 Cancer 46
Vesta:19 Gemini 29
Eris:25 Aries 13 Rx
Fire:7
Earth:6
Air:3
Water:3
Cardinal:7
Fixed:5
Mutable:7
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