Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 18% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 21 September 2044 at 11:03.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2044 after 11 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 5.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1806" and ∠1914".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 553 of Meeus index or 1506 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 33 minutes and it is 2 hours and 48 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 11 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 58 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 ∠57.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠90.4°.
7 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 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 September 2044 at 15:06 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 396 934 km (246 643 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 238 km (251 182 mi).
5 days after descending node on 20 September 2044 at 04:05 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 4 October 2044 at 10:56 in ♓ Pisces.
10 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 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.424° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 September 2044 at 07:55 in ♐ Sagittarius.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 7 October 2044 at 00:30 in ♈ Aries the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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