Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 39% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 5 September 2034 at 11:41.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2034 after 21 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 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1956" and ∠1904".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
3 days since point of perigee on 2 September 2034 at 15:31 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 September 2034 at 07:04 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 366 386 km (227 662 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 970 km (251 637 mi).
6 days after descending node on 30 August 2034 at 22:58 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 12 September 2034 at 23:47 in ♍ Virgo.
At 19:37 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.184°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.177° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 21 September 2034 at 02:17.
20 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 6 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