Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 94% 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 ∠12° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 29 August 2055 at 08:35.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2055 after 2 days on 6 September 2055 at 01:56.
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 4.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1812" and ∠1902".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 688 of Meeus index or 1641 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 5 minutes and it is 25 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2055. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 39 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 30 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 ∠336.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠352.8°.
10 days since point of perigee on 24 August 2055 at 04:11 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 8 September 2055 at 13:59 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 395 583 km (245 804 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 177 km (252 387 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♒ Aquarius at 07:35 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 17 September 2055 at 19:18 in ♌ Leo.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 31 August 2055 at 23:31 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.442° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.530° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 September 2055 at 17:00 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 6 September 2055 at 01:56 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