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The Moon rises 30 to 70 minutes (should be a fixed number, about 50 minutes, if it's the same 13 degrees) later each day/night than the day/night before, due to the fact that the Moon moves 13 degrees every day. Hence, the Earth must move 13 degrees after completing one rotation for the Moon to be visible.
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The Moon is opposite the Sun, as viewed from Earth, revealing the Moon’s dayside. A full moon rises around sunset and sets around sunrise. The Moon will appear full for a couple of days before it moves into…
The lunar cycle lasts about 29.5 days, just under a calendar month. Lunar calendar: next Full Moon and New Moon phase. New Moon. Moon phase: primary. Moonrise: around sunrise | Moonset: around sunset. Illumination: 0% (approx) Position in space: the Moon is between the Sun and Earth.
On some days, the Moon does not rise or set. Because the Moon is constantly in motion, the time span from one moonrise or moonset to the next is a little longer than 24 hours. For example, if the Moon rises just before midnight on day 1, it may not rise again until just after midnight on day 3, meaning that day 2 does not have a moonrise.
The Moon takes about one month to orbit Earth (27.3 days to complete a revolution, but 29.5 days to change from new moon to new moon). As the Moon completes each 27.3-day orbit around Earth, both Earth and the Moon are moving around the Sun.
MoonCalc shows the motion of the Moon and Moon phase for a particular day at a particular location. You can see the moon positions for moon rising , selected time and Moonset . The thin yellow-colored curve shows the trajectory of the moon.
