Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 90% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 ∠25° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 7 September 2044 at 11:24.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2044 after 26 days on 7 October 2044 at 00:30.
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 0.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1893" and ∠1906".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 552 of Meeus index or 1505 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 57 minutes and it is 2 hours and 36 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 2 hours and 47 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 22 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 ∠34° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠57.9°.
8 days since point of apogee on 1 September 2044 at 20:26 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 September 2044 at 12:14 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 378 566 km (235 230 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 771 km (228 522 mi).
3 days after ascending node on 7 September 2044 at 03:06 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 September 2044 at 04:05 in ♍ Virgo.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 31 August 2044 at 23:59 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.478° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.463° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 September 2044 at 23:32 in ♊ Gemini.
3 days 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 10 days on 21 September 2044 at 11:03 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