The Moon Sky Charts and Coordinates
This is a simplified sky chart, showing where The Moon is now with respect to the brightest stars and constellations.
More advanced sky charts are available on TheSkyLive for this object: 1) the Online Planetarium which is interactive and allows to select dates and additional objects to visualize; and 2) the Live Position and Data Tracker which provides the highest precision position data and features deep sky imagery from the Digitized Sky Survey.
The Moon Rise and Set Times
Today's The Moon rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, United Kingdom [change]. All times are relative to the local timezone Europe/London.
Current Moon Phase
Current Moon Sky Map
The Moon Ephemeris
The following table lists the ephemerides of The Moon computed for the past and next 7 days, with a 24 hours interval. Click on each row of the table to locate The Moon in our Online Planetarium at the chosen date.
|2017 Oct 11||-10.90||05h 49m 46s||+19° 14’ 25”||Orion|
|2017 Oct 12||-10.46||06h 50m 08s||+19° 36’ 00”||Gemini|
|2017 Oct 13||-9.96||07h 49m 38s||+18° 43’ 37”||Gemini|
|2017 Oct 14||-9.38||08h 47m 25s||+16° 44’ 03”||Cancer|
|2017 Oct 15||-8.73||09h 42m 59s||+13° 48’ 33”||Leo|
|2017 Oct 16||-7.97||10h 36m 15s||+10° 10’ 53”||Leo|
|2017 Oct 17||-7.09||11h 27m 30s||+06° 05’ 21”||Leo|
|2017 Oct 18||-6.08||12h 17m 12s||+01° 45’ 56”||Virgo|
|2017 Oct 19||-4.97||13h 05m 51s||-02° 34’ 19”||Virgo|
|2017 Oct 20||-4.40||13h 53m 58s||-06° 43’ 44”||Virgo|
|2017 Oct 21||-5.38||14h 42m 03s||-10° 31’ 42”||Libra|
|2017 Oct 22||-6.37||15h 30m 24s||-13° 49’ 09”||Libra|
|2017 Oct 23||-7.22||16h 19m 17s||-16° 28’ 21”||Scorpius|
|2017 Oct 24||-7.95||17h 08m 40s||-18° 23’ 14”||Ophiucus|
Distance of The Moon from Earth
The following chart shows the distance of The Moon from Earth as a function of time. Distance data is measured in Astronomical Units and sampled with a 2 days interval.
The reported distances might be inaccurate around the times of closest approach for objects passing extremely close to Earth.
Light Curve of The Moon
The following chart is the predicted light curve (visual magnitude as a function of time) of The Moon, according to the most recent ephemerides data. Magnitude data is sampled with a 2 days interval and there might be inaccuracies for objects changing brightness very rapidly during the course of a few days. For comets there could be large discrepancies between the observed and predicted brightness because of their highly dynamic behaviour.