Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 about ∠16° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 19 September 2043 at 01:47.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2043 after 27 days on 18 October 2043 at 11:56.
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 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1942" and ∠1911".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 540 of Meeus index or 1493 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 55 minutes and it is 2 hours and 50 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 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 52 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 ∠88.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠123.9°.
10 days since point of apogee on 10 September 2043 at 03:40 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 22 September 2043 at 00:24 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 369 063 km (229 325 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 389 km (227 042 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 19 September 2043 at 07:48 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 2 October 2043 at 07:39 in ♍ Virgo.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 12 September 2043 at 11:52 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.703° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.712° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 September 2043 at 14:42 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 3 October 2043 at 03:12 in ♎ Libra 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