Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
Slide horizontally to discover the moon phase on nearby dates.
Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 21 September 2002 at 13:59.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2002 after 27 days on 21 October 2002 at 07:20.
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 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1912".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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 apogee at 03:26 about 15 days since last perigee on 8 September 2002 at 03:14 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 6 October 2002 at 13:17 in ♎ Libra.
This apogee Moon is 406 351 km (252 495 mi) away from Earth. It is 943 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 358 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
10 days after descending node on 13 September 2002 at 03:39 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 September 2002 at 16:06 in ♊ Gemini.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 15 September 2002 at 05:34 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.377° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.530° at the point of next northern standstill on 30 September 2002 at 00:04 in ♋ Cancer.
22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 6 October 2002 at 11:17 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