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 passing about ∠14° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 13 August 2009 at 18:55.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2009 after 16 days on 4 September 2009 at 16:03.
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 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1896".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 118 of Meeus index or 1071 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 27 minutes and it is 1 hour and 16 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 5 hours and 17 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 52 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 ∠4.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠20.3°.
Moon is at perigee at 04:53 about 15 days since last apogee on 4 August 2009 at 00:42 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next apogee on 31 August 2009 at 11:04 in ♑ Capricorn.
This perigee Moon is 359 642 km (223 471 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 866 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 714 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
1 day after descending node on 18 August 2009 at 14:06 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 1 September 2009 at 03:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 15 August 2009 at 21:54 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.442° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.391° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 August 2009 at 20:17 in ♐ Sagittarius.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 20 August 2009 at 10:01 in ♌ Leo 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