Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 20% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 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 passing first ∠3° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 14 September 2044 at 15:58.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2044 after 19 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 2.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1910".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
Moon is at perigee at 12:14 about 15 days since last apogee on 1 September 2044 at 20:26 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 29 September 2044 at 15:06 in ♑ Capricorn.
This perigee Moon is 367 771 km (228 522 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 263 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 2 585 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
10 days after ascending node on 7 September 2044 at 03:06 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 September 2044 at 04:05 in ♍ Virgo.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 14 September 2044 at 23:32 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.463° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.424° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 September 2044 at 07:55 in ♐ Sagittarius.
10 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 3 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