The Moon

The Moon, August, 2010.

This page was last amended on 1st August, 2010

This page contains three articles:

	Moon phase calendar
	Daily times of Moonrise and Moonset
	Earthshine

Moon phase, August 2010

Times of Moonrise and Moonset, Kidderminster, UK, August 2010.

Date

Moonrise (hh:mm)

Culmination

Moonset

2010-08-01	21:34	04:23	11:38
2010-08-02	21:55	05:06	12:50
2010-08-03	22:21	05:53	14:03
2010-08-04	22:57	06:43	15:16
2010-08-05	23:47	07:37	16:23
2010-08-06	---	08:35	17:22
2010-08-07	00:52	09:34	18:08
2010-08-08	02:11	10:33	18:43
2010-08-09	03:39	11:31	19:10
2010-08-10	05:10	12:26	19:32
2010-08-11	06:41	13:19	19:50
2010-08-12	08:10	14:11	20:08
2010-08-13	09:38	15:03	20:26
2010-08-14	11:04	15:56	20:47
2010-08-15	12:27	16:50	21:13
2010-08-16	13:47	17:45	21:44
2010-08-17	14:59	18:41	22:25
2010-08-18	15:59	19:37	23:16
2010-08-19	16:47	20:31	---
2010-08-20	17:24	21:23	00:16
2010-08-21	17:52	22:11	01:23
2010-08-22	18:13	22:57	02:33
2010-08-23	18:30	23:40	03:43
2010-08-24	18:45	---	04:53
2010-08-25	18:59	00:21	06:01
2010-08-26	19:12	01:01	07:09
2010-08-27	19:26	01:41	08:17
2010-08-28	19:42	02:22	09:27
2010-08-29	20:01	03:04	10:37
2010-08-30	20:24	03:49	11:49
2010-08-31	20:56	04:37	13:00

Earthshine

Earthshine is Sunlight reflected from the Earth, strong enough to dimly illuminate what would otherwise be the dark part of the Moon’s surface. It is best seen a few days before of after a new Moon.

Earthshine: photograph Martin Humphries

Earthshine can be used as a simple weather forecaster – the brighter the Earthshine the wetter the weather is likely to be over the next few days. This is because the brighter the Earthshine, the cloudier is the sky over the Atlantic Ocean, which in turn could mean more rain for us within the next day or two!