First quarter: The moon is 90 degrees away from the sun in the sky and is half-illuminated from our point of view. We call it "first quarter" because the moon has traveled about a quarter of the ...

Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is just by looking up.

The Moon is not visible since it rises with the Sun, and only towards the end of the first quarter does a tiny sliver of the Moon appear right after sunset in the sky. Beginnings come to pass as ...

During the first quarter, the Moon is a fourth of the way through its monthly phases. About half of the Moon is illuminated by the Sun to viewers on Earth. It's best to view a first quarter Moon ...

New Moon, waxing crescent, First Quarter, waxing gibbous, Full Moon, waning gibbous, Last Quarter, and waning crescent. A cycle starting from one Full Moon to its next counterpart, termed the ...

These range from a banana-shaped crescent moon, a D-shaped quarter moon and a nearly full gibbous moon. Each phase is named according to where it falls in the 29½-day cycle, whether it is waxing ...

There are eight phases of the Moon beginning with the new Moon, followed by waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full Moon, waning gibbous, third quarter and finally waning crescent.