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 ∠9° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 7 October 2048 at 17:45.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2048 after 10 days on 21 October 2048 at 18:25.
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 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1923".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 603 of Meeus index or 1556 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 53 minutes and it is 1 minute 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 51 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 18 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 ∠307.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠330.6°.
Moon is at perigee at 04:52 about 11 days since last apogee on 29 September 2048 at 06:20 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 27 October 2048 at 01:59 in ♋ Cancer.
This perigee Moon is 366 937 km (228 004 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 429 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 3 419 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
12 days after descending node on 28 September 2048 at 18:16 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 12 October 2048 at 07:07 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 28 September 2048 at 11:46 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.189° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-23.082° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 October 2048 at 03:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
26 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 10 days on 21 October 2048 at 18:25 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