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English: This 4K visualization shows the Moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2024, as viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour. In addition, this visualization shows the Moon's orbit position, sub-Earth and subsolar points, and distance from the Earth at true scale.
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It orbits at an average distance of 384,400 km (238,900 mi), about 30 times the diameter of Earth. Tidal forces between Earth and the Moon have synchronized the Moon's orbital period (lunar month) with its rotation period at 29.5 Earth days, causing the same side of the Moon to always face Earth.
Due to tidal locking, the same hemisphere of the Moon always faces the Earth and thus the length of a lunar day (sunrise to sunrise on the Moon) equals the time that the Moon takes to complete one orbit around Earth, returning to the same lunar phase. While the Moon is orbiting Earth, Earth is progressing in its orbit around the Sun.
The beaver moon — named as a nod to that animal’s hibernation and thicker coats this time of year — reached the crest of its full phase at 4:29 p.m. ET Friday, according to The Old Farmer ...
Moonrise/moonset for different moon phases Lunar phase (illustration as seen from northern hemisphere) Moonrise [a] Culmination time (highest point) Moonset Best seen New moon: 6 AM Noon 6 PM Not visible unless there is a solar eclipse: Waxing crescent 9 AM Afternoon 9 PM Late morning to early evening First quarter 12 PM Sunset 12 AM
The Moon then wanes as it passes through the gibbous moon, third-quarter moon, and crescent moon phases, before returning back to new moon. The terms old moon and new moon are not interchangeable. The "old moon" is a waning sliver (which eventually becomes undetectable to the naked eye) until the moment it aligns with the Sun and begins to wax ...
Timekeeping on the Moon is an issue of synchronized human activity on the Moon and contact with such. The two main differences to timekeeping on Earth are the length of a day on the Moon, being the lunar day or lunar month, observable from Earth as the lunar phases, and the rate at which time progresses, with 24 hours on the Moon being 58.7 microseconds (0.0000587 seconds) faster, [1 ...
Crewed test of the Orion spacecraft on a free-return trajectory around the Moon. NASA: Artemis III: Orion, Starship HLS: mid-2027 [155] SLS Block 1: Deliver the "first woman and next man" to the Moon. NASA: Artemis IV: Orion, Starship HLS: September 2028 [156] SLS Block 1B: First flight of Block 1B configuration.