Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 66% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
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.
Moon phases on nearby dates
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Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 7 September 2027 at 18:31.
Harvest Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2027 after 6 days on 15 September 2027 at 23:04.
Neap tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1784"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1784" and ∠1905".
Lunation 342 / 1295
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 342 of Meeus index or 1295 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 55 minutes and it is 2 hours and 5 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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 49 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 20 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠18.2°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠18.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠36.7°.
Moon before apogee
9 days since point of perigee on 30 August 2027 at 15:36 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 September 2027 at 23:39 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 401 676 km(249 590 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 384 km(251 894 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 29 August 2027 at 23:01 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 12 September 2027 at 11:26 in ♒ Aquarius.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 8 September 2027 at 08:57 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.122° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.015° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 September 2027 at 20:33 in ♊ Gemini.
In 6 days on 15 September 2027 at 23:04 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.