Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 31 August 2048 at 07:42.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2048 after 15 days on 22 September 2048 at 04:46.
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 4.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1818" and ∠1904".
The Moon is 27 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°.
5 days since point of apogee on 1 September 2048 at 10:48 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 September 2048 at 15:06 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 394 181 km (244 933 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 916 km (229 855 mi).
4 days after descending node on 1 September 2048 at 16:14 in ♊ Gemini 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 15 September 2048 at 06:06 in ♐ Sagittarius.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 1 September 2048 at 03:54 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.449° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.317° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 September 2048 at 22:20 in ♐ Sagittarius.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day 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