Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is just by looking up.

The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

View Deal Waxing gibbous: The area of illumination continues to increase. More than half of the moon's face appears ... However, this is a very simplified description since the lunar motion ...

Looking at the Moon through binoculars or a telescope reveals a topography that hints of a violent history. Here’s a look at ...

There are eight phases of the Moon beginning with the new Moon, followed by waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full Moon, waning gibbous, third quarter and finally waning crescent.

a D-shaped quarter moon and a nearly full gibbous moon. Each phase is named according to where it falls in the 29½-day cycle, whether it is waxing (increasing) or waning (shrinking). The eight ...

So occasionally, the moon covers up (or occults) the Pleiades. Look high above east when it gets dark for an 81%-lit waxing gibbous moon to move across the Pleiades over three or four hours.

After the Moon reached its first quarter phase on February 5, about three quarters of the waxing gibbous Moon's surface will be visible tonight as it transitions towards its full Moon phase.