Waxing
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 22% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 8 September 2029 at 10:44.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1907".
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2029 after 10 days on 22 September 2029 at 16:29.
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.
The Moon is 5 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 367 of Meeus index or 1320 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 30 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2029. It is 40 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 55 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠331.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠348.5°.
2 days after point of perigee on 10 September 2029 at 04:27 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 September 2029 at 19:40 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 363 869 km (226 098 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 002 km (252 278 mi).
9 days after descending node on 3 September 2029 at 01:43 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 15 September 2029 at 16:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
10 days since the previous standstill on 1 September 2029 at 23:36 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.127°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.021° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 September 2029 at 18:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 10 days on 22 September 2029 at 16:29 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.