Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 13% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 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 ∠13° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 21 August 2047 at 09:16.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2047 after 10 days on 4 September 2047 at 08:54.
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 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1898".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 589 of Meeus index or 1542 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 15 minutes and it is 18 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 29 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 40 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 ∠306.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠329.2°.
Moon is at perigee at 23:21 about 12 days since last apogee on 12 August 2047 at 22:38 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next apogee on 9 September 2047 at 17:06 in ♉ Taurus.
This perigee Moon is 366 969 km (228 024 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 461 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 3 387 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
6 days after descending node on 18 August 2047 at 04:37 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 31 August 2047 at 00:29 in ♑ Capricorn.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 16 August 2047 at 02:57 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.256° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.179° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 August 2047 at 04:16 in ♐ Sagittarius.
20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 4 September 2047 at 08:54 in ♓ Pisces 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