Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 30% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 8 September 2048 at 06:24.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2048 after 8 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 2.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1908".
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 602 of Meeus index or 1555 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 21 minutes and it is 28 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 1 hour and 23 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 46 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 ∠276° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠307.5°.
12 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 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 September 2048 at 15:06 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 365 310 km (226 993 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 916 km (229 855 mi).
11 days after descending node on 1 September 2048 at 16:14 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 September 2048 at 06:06 in ♐ Sagittarius.
12 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 day to face maximum declination of ∠-23.317° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 September 2048 at 22:20 in ♐ Sagittarius.
25 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 8 days on 22 September 2048 at 04:46 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