Waxing
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase on 6 September 2043 Sunday is Waxing Crescent, 3 days young Moon is in Libra.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 9% and growing larger. The 3 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 3 September 2043 at 13:17.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 5.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1794" and ∠1904".
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2043 after 12 days on 19 September 2043 at 01:47.
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.
The Moon is 3 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 540 of Meeus index or 1493 from Brown series.
Length of current 540 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 55 minutes. It is 2 hours and 50 minutes shorter than next lunation 541 length.
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 52 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠88.7°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠123.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
10 days after point of perigee on 26 August 2043 at 13:38 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 10 September 2043 at 03:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Moon is 399 468 km (248 218 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 3 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 492 km (251 340 mi).
1 day after its descending node on 4 September 2043 at 23:58 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 19 September 2043 at 07:48 in ♓ Pisces.
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
8 days after previous North standstill on 29 August 2043 at 09:18 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.661°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.703° in the next southern standstill on 12 September 2043 at 11:52 in ♑ Capricorn.
After 12 days on 19 September 2043 at 01:47 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.