Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 10% 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 ∠22° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 5 September 2051 at 04:33.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2051 after 11 days on 20 September 2051 at 10:11.
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 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1905".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 639 of Meeus index or 1592 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 14 minutes and it is 1 hour and 58 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 29 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 33 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠137° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠163.9°.
15 days since point of perigee on 24 August 2051 at 08:43 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 September 2051 at 04:18 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 405 438 km (251 927 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 670 km (252 072 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♎ Libra at 15:18 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 22 September 2051 at 03:59 in ♈ Aries.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 30 August 2051 at 01:37 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.858° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.758° at the point of next southern standstill on 13 September 2051 at 15:30 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 15:18 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 11 days on 20 September 2051 at 10:11 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