Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 93% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 1 September 2052 at 07:10.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2052 after 2 days on 9 September 2052 at 00:15.
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 4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1830" and ∠1904".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 651 of Meeus index or 1604 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 26 minutes and it is 3 hours and 5 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 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 ∠69.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠104.4°.
5 days since point of apogee on 1 September 2052 at 00:01 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 September 2052 at 06:22 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 391 613 km (243 337 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 182 km (228 778 mi).
10 days after ascending node on 27 August 2052 at 00:15 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 10 September 2052 at 07:41 in ♈ Aries.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 2 September 2052 at 21:23 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.203° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.163° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 September 2052 at 04:17 in ♊ Gemini.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 9 September 2052 at 00:15 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