Overview
- NASA’s Daily Moon Observation reports the Moon is waxing gibbous at 91% illumination on Dec. 2.
- This is day 12 of the roughly 29.5-day lunar cycle, with the bright dayside continuing to expand.
- Unaided viewing can reveal Mare Crisium, Mare Fecunditatis, and the Copernicus Crater.
- Binoculars bring Endymion, Alphonsus, and Posidonius into view, while a telescope can pick out the Apollo 15 and 16 sites and Rima Hyginus.
- The next full moon arrives on Dec. 4 and is described as the last of three consecutive supermoons.