Moon photography forecast

Moon windows near a city

Use a city or town. Exact home addresses are not needed.

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Preferences

Limits rule out results. Weather can change which result comes first.

Limit Moon altitude

Drag the inclusive minimum and maximum.

Limit Moon direction

Choose a compass sector and the blocked part inside it.

Time & light

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From Until

Uses 24-hour HH:mm in the searched location’s timezone. An end before the start crosses midnight.

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Moon shape

Waxing and waning phases share a shape; paired disks show either illuminated side symbolically. Results keep the exact phase name. Select all five for no shape limit; at least one must remain.

New / very thin Crescent Half Gibbous Full

Bright-limb orientation Limit illuminated-edge direction

Drag one target around the Moon.

Weather in ranking

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Camera setup

Estimate Moon size in digital pixels or physical image size on film. Saved only in this browser.

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Opportunity review

NASA: How to Photograph the Moon