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Quarter* ♐ Sagittarius
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 38% and growing larger. The 6 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 27 August 2003 at 17:26.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1902".
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2003 after 8 days on 10 September 2003 at 16:36.
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.
The Moon is 6 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 45 of Meeus index or 998 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 43 minutes. It is 2 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 hours and 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 8 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠301°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠325.5°.
1 day after point of perigee on 31 August 2003 at 18:47 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 September 2003 at 09:22 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 363 334 km (225 765 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 713 km (251 477 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♏ Scorpio at 07:23 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 15 September 2003 at 23:28 in ♉ Taurus.
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
10 days since the previous standstill on 23 August 2003 at 11:41 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.649°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.746° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 September 2003 at 11:54 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 8 days on 10 September 2003 at 16:36 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.