Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 9 September 2052 at 00:15.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2052 after 27 days on 8 October 2052 at 10:54.
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 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1922" and ∠1906".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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°.
9 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 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 September 2052 at 06:22 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 372 868 km (231 689 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 182 km (228 778 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 07:41 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 23 September 2052 at 08:07 in ♎ Libra.
7 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 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.163° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 September 2052 at 04:17 in ♊ Gemini.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 22 September 2052 at 23:32 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