Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 7 October 2029 at 19:14.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2029 after 13 days on 22 October 2029 at 09:28.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1921".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 368 of Meeus index or 1321 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 10 minutes and it is 1 hour and 18 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 3 hours and 34 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 35 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 ∠348.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠3.8°.
Moon is at perigee at 11:26 about 12 days since last apogee on 25 September 2029 at 19:40 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 23 October 2029 at 02:02 in ♉ Taurus.
This perigee Moon is 357 740 km (222 289 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 768 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 616 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
8 days after descending node on 30 September 2029 at 04:00 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 12 October 2029 at 17:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 29 September 2029 at 06:54 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.869° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.772° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 October 2029 at 01:50 in ♐ Sagittarius.
22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 22 October 2029 at 09:28 in ♈ Aries 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