Sun & moon times today, City of North Miami Beach, Florida, USA (2024)

FAQs

What type of moon is tonight called? ›

The Moon Today: Waxing Crescent.

The Moon's current phase for today and tonight is a Waning Crescent phase.

Depending on the amount of pollutants and air particles in the sky —and how close the moon is to the horizon — it appears white, yellow, blue or orange.

A day on the Moon is 27.32 Earth days or 655.72 hours long.

The average travel time to the moon (providing the moon is your intended destination), using current rocket propulsion is approximately three days.

Yes. 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).

We sometimes see the daytime moon for the same reason we see it at night — it is reflecting light from the sun — and its closeness to Earth makes it brighter than the daytime or nighttime sky. After the sun, the moon is by far the brightest celestial object we can see. But the daytime moon isn't always visible.

The full moon of April, called the Pink Moon, will occur in the eastern U.S. during the evening hours of April 23, at 7:49 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (2349 UT). Later that night, Mars and Saturn will rise in the predawn hours. Full moons occur when the moon is exactly on the opposite side of Earth from the Sun.

The term waxing means increasing, and the term gibbous means “humped-back.” Therefore, this phase is called Waxing Gibbous because the surface area of the Moon that you see is increasing and the shape of the lit-up part of the Moon looks like a hump-back.

The waxing crescent phase follows the new moon, and it's visually characterized by a thin sliver of illumination on the right side of the moon. This phase symbolizes growth, intention, and hope, setting the stage for what you wish to achieve in the coming lunar cycle.

What does it mean when there is a blue moon? ›

The moon phases actually take 29.5 days to complete which means it takes just 354 days to complete 12 lunar cycles. So every 2.5 years or so a 13th full moon is observed within a calendar year. This 13th full moon doesn't conform to the normal naming scheme and is referred to as the Blue Moon.