Moon Phases - Lunar phases of the moon

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.