Thursday, September 6

This is a drawing of the moon's appearance in my neighborhood around 5:45 AM September 7. Thursday's moon did not rise until 10:36 PM and its meridian passing time was at 4:58 AM Friday morning. The moon will not set until 12:47 PM Friday afternoon, with its current schedule it is impossible to see the moon before the "wee hours" of the morning. In order to find the moon this morning (September 7) I had to walk down my driveway and into the street, about 50 feet from my house. As you can tell around 70% of the moon remains illuminated from Saturday, September 1.