Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 93% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 19 September 2007 at 16:48.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2007 after 2 days on 26 September 2007 at 19:45.
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 0.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1910" and ∠1913".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 95 of Meeus index or 1048 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 16 minutes and it is 1 hour and 46 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 3 hours and 32 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 31 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠131.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠159.5°.
8 days since point of apogee on 15 September 2007 at 21:06 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 September 2007 at 01:53 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 375 297 km (233 199 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 420 km (223 333 mi).
13 days after descending node on 10 September 2007 at 14:49 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 25 September 2007 at 00:40 in ♓ Pisces.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 19 September 2007 at 16:22 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.347° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.296° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 October 2007 at 10:23 in ♊ Gemini.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 26 September 2007 at 19:45 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