Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 39% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 ∠23° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 31 August 2048 at 07:42.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2048 after 20 days on 22 September 2048 at 04:46.
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 7.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1902".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 601 of Meeus index or 1554 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 26 minutes and it is 1 hour and 5 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 18 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 51 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 ∠240.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠276°.
Moon is at apogee at 10:48 about 11 days since last perigee on 20 August 2048 at 12:34 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 15 September 2048 at 15:06 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This apogee Moon is 404 235 km (251 180 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 173 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 474 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 16:14 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 15 September 2048 at 06:06 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 03:54 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.449°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.317° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 14 September 2048 at 22:20.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 8 September 2048 at 06:24 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