Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 first ∠4° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 14 September 2055 at 05:14.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2055 after 16 days on 5 October 2055 at 18:38.
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 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1954" and ∠1910".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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 apogee on 8 September 2055 at 13:59 in ♈ Aries 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 21 September 2055 at 12:32 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 366 815 km (227 928 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 315 km (222 025 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 17 September 2055 at 19:18 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 30 September 2055 at 10:30 in ♒ Aquarius.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 15 September 2055 at 17:00 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.530° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.612° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 September 2055 at 05:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 21 September 2055 at 02:19 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