Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 4 October 2034 at 18:05.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2034 after 17 days on 27 October 2034 at 12:42.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 5.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1820" and ∠1922".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 429 of Meeus index or 1382 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 19 minutes and it is 2 hours and 25 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 35 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 28 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠108.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠141.4°.
10 days since point of perigee on 30 September 2034 at 04:10 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 October 2034 at 00:06 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 393 858 km (244 732 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 022 km (252 290 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 06:34 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 24 October 2034 at 18:23 in ♓ Pisces.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 4 October 2034 at 01:15 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.200° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.265° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 October 2034 at 10:02 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 06:34 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 1 day on 12 October 2034 at 07:33 in ♎ Libra the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
