New Delhi, Aug. 24 -- Two things about the moon reversed over the weekend, and today is the first day both reversals are working in the same direction. It has stopped moving away from Earth and it has stopped sliding south. The moon phase today, August 24, 2026, is a Waxing Gibbous, around 87 percent illuminated and roughly twelve days into the cycle that opened with the total solar eclipse of August 12.

the moon reached its most southerly declination of the month, minus 28.1 degrees, at 11:00 UTC on 22 August, and it has been climbing back north since. That is why the numbers in the second table below have started moving in opposite directions depending on which hemisphere you are standing in.

The lit fraction crosses 85 percent during...