waning gibbous
waning gibbous moon

The glare from an 80% waning gibbous Moon also hindered observations.

There you'll see a waning gibbous moon less than a day before it arrives at last quarter (half) phase.

Looking low to the east-northeast around 7:30 p.m. local daylight time, you’ll see a nearly full waning gibbous moon.

A waning gibbous moon will emit enough light to wash out a significant fraction of the shooting stars.

However, light from the waning gibbous moon will wash out fainter meteors, so don't expect to see this many.

Full moon was on Monday night, so the waning gibbous moon will be rising a few hours past sunset.

Galliard are the Garou born under the waxing or waning gibbous moon.

The council session had lasted well after dark, for the waning gibbous moon had just risen," she began. "

The peak rate is expected to reach 80 meteors per hour, but the glare of a waning gibbous moon could interfere somewhat.

Technically, it was a waning gibbous moon, but either way, a gorgeous orange roundel of Gouda low in the heavens.

Next year, a bright waning gibbous moon will flood the after-midnight night sky with its light and seriously hinder the Perseids.

Between the time that twilight ends and the time that the bright waning gibbous moon rises, there will be about an hour of dark sky available.

Nanietta Bacco's office was dark except for the pale light of a waning gibbous moon and the amber glow of Paris at midnight.

Tanqueray-and-tonic than by using some rare gin made from juniper berries harvested by monks under Waning Gibbous moons?

We're just a few days past a full moon, so the waning gibbous moon will be high in the sky after midnight, when meteors are usually at their peak.

According to British meteor expert Alastair McBeath: "The waning gibbous moon causes severe problems for detailed observations of the Quadrantid maximum in 2013."

Two nights later, just after midnight on Sunday morning, Saturn and the waning gibbous moon will rise in the southeastern sky, with the first magnitude star Spica framed between them.

A waning gibbous moon occurs when more than half of the lit portion of the Moon can be seen and the shape decreases ("wanes") in size from one day to the next.

Sept. 19 Another Pleiades occultation: A waning gibbous moon will already be within the Pleiades as it rises over the eastern United States and Canada during the mid-evening hours.

Skywatchers who venture outside after 11 p.m. local time Friday and look east-southeast will likely take notice of the waning gibbous moon and a very bright yellowish-orange "star" glowing well above and to its left.

The waning gibbous moon will be out in full force during the shower's peak, but skywatchers in dark areas of the Northern Hemisphere during the wee hours of Thursday morning might still get a decent show.

In theory, the show should be pretty spectacular -- the Quadrantid has a maximum rate of about 100 meteors an hour, but the glare from the waning gibbous moon may make the fainter of those meteors hard to see.

Hovering about 5 degrees almost directly above the planet will be the waning gibbous moon (your clenched fist held at arm’s length measures roughly 10 degrees; so the moon will appear about a "half fist" above Jupiter during the overnight hours of Friday/Saturday).