Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 22 September 2008 at 05:04.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2008 after 16 days on 14 October 2008 at 20:03.
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 3.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1857" and ∠1915".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 107 of Meeus index or 1060 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 14 minutes and it is 2 hours and 48 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 30 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 39 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 ∠64.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠98.7°.
8 days since point of perigee on 20 September 2008 at 03:17 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 October 2008 at 10:34 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 385 913 km (239 795 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 716 km (251 479 mi).
2 days after descending node on 25 September 2008 at 16:20 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 October 2008 at 00:38 in ♒ Aquarius.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 21 September 2008 at 18:30 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.476° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.370° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 October 2008 at 14:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
15 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 1 day on 29 September 2008 at 08:12 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