Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 81% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 17 September 2075 at 15:25.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2075 after 3 days on 24 September 2075 at 10:31.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1911".
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 936 of Meeus index or 1889 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 41 minutes and it is 49 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 3 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 6 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠251.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠287.7°.
Moon is at perigee at 11:42 about 15 days since last apogee on 4 September 2075 at 19:44 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 2 October 2075 at 14:34 in ♋ Cancer.
This perigee Moon is 367 790 km (228 534 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 282 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 2 566 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
1 day after descending node on 18 September 2075 at 19:47 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 2 October 2075 at 05:26 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 18 September 2075 at 20:04 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.947° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.070° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 October 2075 at 08:38 in ♋ Cancer.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 24 September 2075 at 10:31 in ♈ Aries the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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
