Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 82% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 29 August 2034 at 16:49.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2034 after 25 days on 28 September 2034 at 02:57.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1902".
The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 428 of Meeus index or 1381 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 21 minutes and it is 2 hours and 58 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 23 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 46 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 ∠73.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠108.6°.
Moon is at perigee at 15:31 about 12 days since last apogee on 21 August 2034 at 12:02 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 18 September 2034 at 07:04 in ♏ Scorpio.
This perigee Moon is 367 629 km (228 434 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 121 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 2 727 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
2 days after descending node on 30 August 2034 at 22:58 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 12 September 2034 at 23:47 in ♍ Virgo.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 24 August 2034 at 17:42 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.219° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.184° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 September 2034 at 19:37 in ♊ Gemini.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 12 September 2034 at 16:14 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