2023 General Lunar Viewing

[Christopher K.]

The Full Moon has risen! It looks beautiful. By 2am or 3am the fog is rolling in and the humidity is spiking, so be sure to take a look way before then.

[Christopher K.]

Full Moon is at 6:40am CST tomorrow. This means the Moon will "appear" full from 7pm tonight (when it will be seventeen degrees up in the east) until 5:30am tomorrow morning (when it will be eighteen degrees up in the west). It will culminate in the south at seventy degrees in the constellation Leo at 12:08am.

[Christopher K.]

At 12:23pm CDT the Moon was New; Pegasus was at zenith. Sunset was at 7:16pm CDT. Twilight ended at 8:37pm CDT. The night sky was fairly nice until thin clouds started rolling in.

Tomorrow night is forecast to have fewer clouds.

[Christopher K.]

At 10:53am CDT this morning the Moon was New. With it out of the way tonight, wonderful views of Venus and Mars and Coma Berenices and the Hercules Cluster can be had! The NOAA forecast is excellent, though the transparency isn't the best and there is an Air Quality Alert until midnight.

[Christopher K.]

The waxing crescent Moon will be in conjunction with the Beehive Cluster this evening. They can be seen setting in the west from 9:05pm (when the Moon will have an altitude of forty-two degrees) to 10:00pm (when it will be thirty-one degrees up). The two objects will be about four degrees apart at thier closest.