Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 23% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 4 October 2053 at 23:01.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2053 after 19 days on 27 October 2053 at 10:38.
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 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1961" and ∠1920".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
1 day since point of perigee on 6 October 2053 at 10:09 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 October 2053 at 07:14 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 365 479 km (227 098 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 289 km (251 214 mi).
11 days after descending node on 26 September 2053 at 11:14 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 9 October 2053 at 12:15 in ♍ Virgo.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 4 October 2053 at 08:58 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.380° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.447° at the point of next southern standstill on 17 October 2053 at 18:44 in ♐ Sagittarius.
25 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 4 days on 11 October 2053 at 20:53 in ♎ Libra 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