Use an online lunar phase calendar to tell you what the Moon will look like and when it rises above the horizon.
You'll get the best view of the Moon's features through binoculars or a small telescope. The Moon is very bright so while you won't damage your eyes, you may need to cover large binocular lenses with paper caps with smaller holes if there is too much moonlight.
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The moon has 22 seas and one ocean.(NASA/ABC Ben Spraggon )
The 'man in the moon' looks different in different places on Earth.(NASA/ABC Ben Spraggon)
Apollo 11 landed on the Sea of Tranquillity. The astronauts used the angle of the Sun to help guide them to the surface.(NASA/ABC Ben Spraggon)
Apollo 17 landed on the Sea of Serenity. The buggy and footsteps can still be seen at the site.(NASA/ABC Ben Spraggon)
Apollo 15 landed on the Sea of Rains at the foot of the Apennine mountain range.(NASA/ABC Ben Spraggon)
Just above Copernicus, still in the Ocean of Storms, is where Apollo 12 and 14 landed.
Apollo 12 and 14 landed above the Copernicus crater (as seen from the southern hemisphere).(NASA/ABC: Ben Spraggon)
Apollo 16 landed in an elevated area between Tycho and the Sea of Tranquillity.(NASA/ABC Ben Spraggon)
The sun lights up a sliver of the moon as seen over Earth from the International Space Station.(NASA)
A waxing crescent moon is lit up from the left as seen from the southern hemisphere.(Supplied: Dylan O'Donnell)
First quarter with the Sea of Serenity and crater detail around Tycho highlighted.(Supplied: Luke and Ángel López-Sánchez /Australian Astronomical Optics, Macquarie University)
Features on the right hand side are highlighted during the waxing gibbous phase.(Supplied: Dylan O'Donnell)
The dark part of the moon is lit up in an eerie glow by sunlight reflected off Earth.(Supplied: Dylan O'Donnell)
A full moon appears huge on the horizon, but this is a trick of the mind.(Supplied: Shelley Lloyd)
