Lunar Phases
Full information of the Lunar phases of the moon, including:
New Moon
Waxing crescent
First Quarter
Waxing gibbous
Full Moon
Waning gibbous
Last Quarter
Waning crescent
The lunar phase or phase of the Moon is the shape of the directly sunlit portion of the Moon as viewed from Earth. The lunar phases gradually change over the period of a synodic month (about 29.53 days), as the orbital positions of the Moon around Earth and of Earth around the Sun shift.