Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 12 September 2032 at 18:49.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2032 after 1 day 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 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1910".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 404 of Meeus index or 1357 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 30 minutes and it is 11 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2032. 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 46 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 17 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 ∠189.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠215.1°.
Moon is at perigee at 14:05 about 14 days since last apogee on 3 September 2032 at 19:58 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 1 October 2032 at 03:03 in ♍ Virgo.
This perigee Moon is 358 032 km (222 471 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 476 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 324 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
9 days after ascending node on 8 September 2032 at 21:41 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 21 September 2032 at 16:10 in ♈ Aries.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 12 September 2032 at 21:50 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.181° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.115° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 September 2032 at 11:10 in ♊ Gemini.
9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 19 September 2032 at 09:30 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.
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