Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 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 ∠17° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 19 September 2053 at 21:29.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2053 after 1 day on 27 September 2053 at 21:50.
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 5.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1816" and ∠1914".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 664 of Meeus index or 1617 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 18 minutes and it is 2 hours and 44 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 1 hour and 26 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 43 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 ∠43.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠71.2°.
5 days since point of apogee on 21 September 2053 at 11:30 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 October 2053 at 10:09 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 394 802 km (245 319 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 576 km (229 644 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♓ Pisces at 11:14 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 9 October 2053 at 12:15 in ♍ Virgo.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 20 September 2053 at 10:22 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.328° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.380° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 October 2053 at 08:58 in ♋ Cancer.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 27 September 2053 at 21:50 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