The Natural Compass

Moon tonight

Waxing Gibbous

More than half glows now; the moon is almost round and still growing.

This is a gibbous moon: most of the disk is day side (pale). Any thin dark curve is still night on the moon — not a lit crescent. A thin silver crescent only shows when we are under about half lit.

✦ Keep polishing what you started — tiny improvements add up.

Everyone on Earth sees the same phase at the same moment — only your local clock time differs. The drawing matches how the moon looks in the northern sky; south of the equator, left and right in the picture swap.