Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% 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 ∠20° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 27 September 2030 at 09:55.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2030 after 12 days on 11 October 2030 at 10:47.
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 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1930" and ∠1915".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 380 of Meeus index or 1333 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 22 minutes and it is 8 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2030. 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 2 hours and 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 47 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 ∠310.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠332.4°.
9 days since point of apogee on 18 September 2030 at 18:09 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 September 2030 at 15:39 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 371 335 km (230 737 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 348 km (227 638 mi).
10 days after descending node on 18 September 2030 at 10:12 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 1 October 2030 at 22:00 in ♐ Sagittarius.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 19 September 2030 at 02:24 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.208° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.097° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 October 2030 at 13:26 in ♐ Sagittarius.
23 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 12 days on 11 October 2030 at 10:47 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
