SKY · MOON PHASE · CHINA

Moon Phase Tonight — Beijing

Tonight the Moon is a last quarter, 49% lit. Here's when it rises and sets over Beijing in local time, and whether its light will brighten the sky for stargazing there.

THE MOON TONIGHT · BEIJING
PhaseLast Quarter
Illuminated49% · waning
Moonrise12:38 AM
Moonset12:58 PM

Computed for Beijing (39.9°, 116.4°) · rise/set times in local time.

The Moon is below the horizon over Beijing right now — it rises at 12:38 AM. A modest Moon — bright planets and constellations are fine, faint detail less so.

Will the Moon spoil stargazing tonight?

Dark by8:58 PM
Sunrise4:48 AM
Moon up nowNo
Lit fraction49%

A modest Moon — bright planets and constellations are fine, faint detail less so.

A bright, high Moon drowns out faint stars, nebulae and the Milky Way. The best deep-sky nights are around the new Moon, or when the Moon has set — for Beijing that's after 12:58 PM tonight.

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