Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 80% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 22 September 2029 at 16:29.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2029 after 24 days on 22 October 2029 at 09:28.
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 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1776" and ∠1915".
The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 367 of Meeus index or 1320 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 30 minutes and it is 40 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2029. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠331.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠348.5°.
1 day since point of apogee on 25 September 2029 at 19:40 in ♉ Taurus 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 8 October 2029 at 11:26 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 403 574 km (250 769 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 740 km (222 289 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 15 September 2029 at 16:33 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 30 September 2029 at 04:00 in ♊ Gemini.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 14 September 2029 at 18:54 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.021° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠23.869° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 September 2029 at 06:54 in ♊ Gemini.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 7 October 2029 at 19:14 in ♎ Libra 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