Moon Phase Software

Moon tools

Moon position, rise, and set for your location

Choose a city, use your location, or enter coordinates. See where the Moon travels across the local day, with moonrise, moonset and direction.

Example: New York, US, city-centre coordinates. Change the location or date to plan your sky.

Time and observer location

Choose a suggestion or enter coordinates below.

Use a named IANA time zone. A selected city fills this field; check it when entering coordinates manually.

Decimal degrees: north and east are positive; south and west are negative. Latitude must be strictly between −90° and +90° because azimuth is undefined at the geographic poles. Observer elevation is fixed at sea level.

Night observatory horizon dome with brass altitude and azimuth controls

Observer output

Calculated Moon position

2026-10-10T20:02-04:00[America/New_York] · America/New_York

Azimuth271.88°W
Altitude−22.06°below the ideal horizon
Right ascension
13.193 h
Declination
−12.82°
Topocentric distance
391,285 km
Observer
+40.71°, −74.01°
Atmospheric reference

Refraction is not displayed because the geometric center is more than 1° below the horizon.

UTC instant

Selected civil date

Moon path above your horizon

20:00 · America/New_York

Above horizonBelow horizon00:0000:00

At 20:00, the Moon is 21.7° below the ideal horizon, toward W (272° from true north).