Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 27 August 2032 at 19:33.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2032 after 15 days on 19 September 2032 at 09:30.
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 7.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1903".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 403 of Meeus index or 1356 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 45 minutes and it is 45 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 3 hours and 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 2 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠166.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠189.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 19:58 about 13 days since last perigee on 21 August 2032 at 03:52 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 18 September 2032 at 14:05 in ♓ Pisces.
This apogee Moon is 406 561 km (252 625 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2032. It is 1 153 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 148 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
9 days after descending node on 25 August 2032 at 09:01 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 8 September 2032 at 21:41 in ♎ Libra.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 29 August 2032 at 03:57 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.299° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.181° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 September 2032 at 21:50 in ♐ Sagittarius.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 4 September 2032 at 20:57 in ♍ Virgo 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