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.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 28 September 2015 at 02:50.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2015 after 28 days on 27 October 2015 at 12:05.
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 2.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1916".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 194 of Meeus index or 1147 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 24 minutes and it is 17 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 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 23 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 ∠169.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠192.9°.
1 day since point of perigee on 28 September 2015 at 01:46 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 October 2015 at 13:17 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 364 635 km (226 574 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 389 km (252 518 mi).
1 day after descending node on 27 September 2015 at 21:04 in ♓ Pisces 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 11 October 2015 at 10:54 in ♎ Libra.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 21 September 2015 at 12:02 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.134° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.140° at the point of next northern standstill on 3 October 2015 at 23:55 in ♊ Gemini.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 13 October 2015 at 00:06 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