Here's a simple answer - a bit blunt maybe. Haven't you started watching the moon already ? Starting with last year perhaps ? It'll not be too bad next year - which gives this year for practise. Did you see the moon rise last night ? (Actually they were mainly questions).

Just need a clear view of the southern horizon - could be a playing field or suburban green space. The stones mark the stuff happening - they're not the happening itself.

The moonrise from Counting Hill in Bolton Will be beautiful tonight, far in the south in a clear sky, but absolutely crap in north Northumberland - where there's a thick band of cloud.