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Moon Phase Tonight — Kansas City

Tonight the Moon is a waxing crescent, 23% lit. Here's when it rises and sets over Kansas City in local time, and whether its light will brighten the sky for stargazing there.

THE MOON TONIGHT · KANSAS CITY
PhaseWaxing Crescent
Illuminated23% · waxing
Moonrise11:00 AM
Moonset12:35 AM

Computed for Kansas City (39.1°, -94.6°) · rise/set times in local time.

The Moon is below the horizon over Kansas City right now — it rises at 11:00 AM. A modest Moon — bright planets and constellations are fine, faint detail less so.

Will the Moon spoil stargazing tonight?

Dark by10:00 PM
Sunrise5:55 AM
Moon up nowNo
Lit fraction23%

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 Kansas City that's after 12:35 AM tonight.

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