NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The table below shows the planned observing times for NASA’s Lunar Impact Monitoring Program based upon the viewing geometry from Huntsville, Alabama, USA (CST/CDT). Observations of the un-illuminated portion of the moon are conducted when sunlight illuminates 10 to 50% of the moon’s Earth-facing surface. Observations are further constrained by the times of moon rise/set and twilight. Note as of 2013: Observations take place primarily during meteor showers.

Description
Column 1: Month.

Column 2: Day. The two numbers given are the dates for the evening and the morning, local time. For evening apparitions the first date applies, for morning ones the second number applies. Both are given because the times for moonrise or moonset may cross local midnight during a given group of observations.

Columns 3-4: The times (CST or CDT) of moonrise/moonset and nautical twilight are given for Huntsville, Alabama.
To observe from your location: These times can be used to approximate observation times in your time zone but they will be a few minutes different depending on your latitude and longitude difference from the meridian of your time zone.
To correlate possible impact flashes in your data to flash candidates listed by the Lunar Impact Monitoring Program: At the time you detect the flash you need to make sure the moon was still visible from Huntsville. (It may be best to convert all times to UT; flash candidates given on the main Lunar Impact Monitoring webpage are listed in UT.)

Column 5: The lunar phase is shown as the fractional illumination where 0.0 is new moon, 0.5 is first or last quarter, and 1.0 is full moon. Observations occur between 0.1 and 0.5, however glare can be a problem near 0.5 illumination. This value is computed at 8:00pm Central Time for evening observation periods and 2:00am for morning observations.

2013

Morning Moonrise N. Twilight Phase Jan 5/6 1:13 5:55 0.36         Evening N.Twilight Moonset Phase Jan 14/15 8:32 0.13 Jan 15/16 9:34 0.22 Jan 16/17 17:56 10:34 0.31 Jan 17/18 11:32 0.41         Evening N.Twilight Moonset Phase Feb 14/15 10:16 0.24 Feb 15/16 18:25 11:13 0.33 Feb 16/17 12:08 0.42         Evening N.Twilight Moonset Phase Mar 14/15 10:00 0.11 Mar 15/16 10:56 0.18 Mar 16/17 19:50 11:51 0.26 Mar 17/18 12:43 0.34 Mar 18/19 1:31 0.44         Evening N.Twilight Moonset Phase Apr 15/16 20:16 12:10 0.27 Apr 16/17 12:53 0.36 Apr 17/18 1:33 0.46         Evening N.Twilight Moonset Phase May 13/14 10:50 0.14 May 14/15 11:31 0.21 May 15/16 20:45 12:08 0.30 May 16/17 12:43 0.39         Morning Moonrise N. Twilight Phase Jun/Jul 30/1 12:58 0.38 Jul 1/2 1:33 4:32 0.29 Jul 2/3 2:11 0.20 Jul 3/4 2:52 0.13         Evening N.Twilight Moonset Phase Jul 11/12 9:53 0.13 Jul 12/13 10:25 0.20 Jul 13/14 21:05 10:57 0.29 Jul 14/15 11:31 0.38         Morning Moonrise N. Twilight Phase Jul 29/30 12:11 0.44 Jul 30/31 12:51 0.34 Jul/Aug 31/1 1:34 4:56 0.26 Aug 1/2 2:20 0.18 Aug 2/3 3:09 0.11         Evening N.Twilight Moonset Phase Aug 9/10 9:01 0.10 Aug 10/11 9:34 0.17 Aug 11/12 20:38 10:09 0.25 Aug 12/13 10:47 0.35 Aug 13/14 11:30 0.46         Evening N.Twilight Moonset Phase Sep 8/9 8:49 0.14 Sep 9/10 19:55 9:31 0.22 Sep 10/11 10:17 0.32 Sep 11/12 11:09 0.43         Morning Moonrise N. Twilight Phase Sep 27/28 12:38 0.39 Sep 28/29 1:32 5:44 0.29 Sep 29/30 2:27 0.21 Sep/Oct 30/1 3:23 0.14         Evening N.Twilight Moonset Phase Oct 7/8 8:15 0.11 Oct 8/9 9:06 0.19 Oct 9/10 19:12 10:03 0.29 Oct 10/11 11:04 0.40         Morning Moonrise N. Twilight Phase Oct 27/28 1:10 0.37 Oct 28/29 2:06 6:07 0.27 Oct 29/30 3:03 0.19 Oct 30/31 4:02 0.12         Evening N.Twilight Moonset Phase Nov 6/7 7:55 0.16 Nov 7/8 17:43 9:00 0.26 Nov 8/9 10:06 0.36 Nov 9/10 11:11 0.48         Evening N.Twilight Moonset Phase Dec 5/6 7:52 0.13 Dec 6/7 17:34 9:00 0.22 Dec 7/8 10:07 0.32 Dec 8/9 11:12 0.43         Morning Moonrise N. Twilight Phase Dec 25/26 12:30 0.42 Dec 26/27 1:31 0.31 Dec 27/28 2:34 5:53 0.22 Dec 28/29 3:39 0.13

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> Automated Lunar and Meteor Observatory (ALaMO) Weather Conditions
> Huntsville Clear Sky Chart
> National Weather Service - Huntsville

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