Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 74% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 18 September 2026 at 20:44.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2026 after 5 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 7.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1911".
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 330 of Meeus index or 1283 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 23 minutes and it is 2 hours and 49 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 21 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 48 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 ∠61.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠94.5°.
2 days since point of apogee on 19 September 2026 at 03:00 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 October 2026 at 20:41 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 402 890 km (250 344 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 338 km (229 496 mi).
11 days after descending node on 9 September 2026 at 19:17 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 24 September 2026 at 02:40 in ♒ Aquarius.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 18 September 2026 at 18:54 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.065° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.989° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 October 2026 at 11:35 in ♊ Gemini.
24 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 5 days on 26 September 2026 at 16:49 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
