Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 about ∠16° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 14 September 2044 at 15:58.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2044 after 16 days on 7 October 2044 at 00:30.
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 0.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1917" and ∠1911".
The Moon is 28 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°.
2 days since point of perigee on 17 September 2044 at 12:14 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 September 2044 at 15:06 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 373 966 km (232 372 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 238 km (251 182 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 04:05 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 4 October 2044 at 10:56 in ♓ Pisces.
5 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 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.424° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 September 2044 at 07:55 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day 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