Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 9% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 passing about ∠8° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 30 August 2097 at 07:54.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2097 after 18 days on 21 September 2097 at 13:00.
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 2.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1959" and ∠1903".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1207 of Meeus index or 2160 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 34 minutes and it is 2 hours and 38 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 4 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 59 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 ∠26.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠47.4°.
1 day since point of perigee on 2 September 2097 at 23:07 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 September 2097 at 20:28 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 365 972 km (227 404 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 346 km (251 249 mi).
6 days after ascending node on 27 August 2097 at 22:42 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 9 September 2097 at 17:26 in ♎ Libra.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 1 September 2097 at 07:23 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.741° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.835° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 September 2097 at 18:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 6 September 2097 at 00:33 in ♍ Virgo 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
