Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 7 September 2002 at 03:10.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2002 after 13 days on 21 September 2002 at 13:59.
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 3.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1905".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 33 of Meeus index or 986 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 7 minutes and it is 1 hour and 10 minutes shorter 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 4 hours and 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 32 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 ∠343.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠358.6°.
Moon is at perigee at 03:14 about 12 days since last apogee on 26 August 2002 at 17:43 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 23 September 2002 at 03:26 in ♈ Aries.
This perigee Moon is 358 745 km (222 914 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 763 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 611 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
7 days after ascending node on 31 August 2002 at 14:43 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 September 2002 at 03:39 in ♐ Sagittarius.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 2 September 2002 at 16:03 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.282° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.377° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 September 2002 at 05:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 21 September 2002 at 13:59 in ♓ Pisces 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