• The last full moon - the second full moon of August or Blue Moon - has passed. Now the moon is in a waning gibbous phase, which means it'll rise later and later each evening. Look for the moon in the east in early evening tonight and in that same location, later each night, in the coming week. But that's not all. You can see the moon in the west after sunrise, starting tomorrow.
• Sylvia asked:
• When is the best time to see the moon in the sky during daylight hours?
• The daytime moon is up there much

of the time, but, because it's pale against the blue sky, it's not as noticeable as the moon at night.
• The most noticeable moon at night is the one farthest from the sun in the sky. That would be around the time of full moon each month, when the moon is 180 degrees from the sun, on the opposite side of the sky's dome. Full moon was August 31, at 13:58 Universal Time (8:58 a.m. Central Daylight Time). If you looked, you saw a bright moon in the sky all night last night.
• Blue Moon - second August full moon - on August 31, 2012
• A full moon rises around sunset and sets around sunrise. But now the moon is now in a waning gibbous phase - rising later each night - and setting in the west after sunrise.
• So, in the next several mornings - after sunrise - look for the waning gibbous moon over your western horizon during the morning hours. It'll be about to set. At mid-northern latitudes in North America, the moon will set at roughly 8:30 a.m. Sun

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