Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days 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 ∠24° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 23 September 2033 at 13:40.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2033 after 12 days on 8 October 2033 at 10:58.
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 7.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1914".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 417 of Meeus index or 1370 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 49 minutes and it is 22 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 5 hours and 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 58 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 ∠166.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠190.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 01:33 about 14 days since last perigee on 10 September 2033 at 01:49 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 8 October 2033 at 12:11 in ♈ Aries.
This apogee Moon is 406 444 km (252 553 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2033. It is 1 036 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 265 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
1 day after ascending node on 24 September 2033 at 12:46 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 8 October 2033 at 05:55 in ♈ Aries.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 15 September 2033 at 23:39 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.313° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.282° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 September 2033 at 17:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day 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 12 days on 8 October 2033 at 10:58 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