Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 73% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 passing about ∠13° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 6 September 2019 at 03:10.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2019 after 5 days on 14 September 2019 at 04:33.
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 4.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1819" and ∠1905".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 243 of Meeus index or 1196 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 49 minutes and it is 1 hour and 23 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 4 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 14 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 ∠356.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠11.4°.
8 days since point of perigee on 30 August 2019 at 15:57 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 September 2019 at 13:32 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 393 960 km (244 795 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 378 km (252 512 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 17:35 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 23 September 2019 at 06:30 in ♋ Cancer.
At 09:39 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-22.539°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠22.681° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 23 September 2019 at 01:54.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 14 September 2019 at 04:33 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