Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 37% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 4 September 2026 at 07:51.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2026 after 21 days on 26 September 2026 at 16:49.
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 3.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1903".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 329 of Meeus index or 1282 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 50 minutes and it is 2 hours and 33 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 2 hours and 54 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 15 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 ∠36.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠61.3°.
14 days since point of apogee on 22 August 2026 at 08:20 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 September 2026 at 20:26 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 363 297 km (225 742 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 255 km (228 823 mi).
8 days after ascending node on 27 August 2026 at 18:47 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 9 September 2026 at 19:17 in ♌ Leo.
At 06:12 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.109°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.065° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 18 September 2026 at 18:54.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 11 September 2026 at 03:27 in ♍ Virgo 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