Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 27 September 2055 at 18:11.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2055 after 1 day 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 8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1919".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 689 of Meeus index or 1642 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 30 minutes and it is 1 hour and 15 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 4 hours and 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 55 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 ∠352.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠7.9°.
12 days since point of perigee on 21 September 2055 at 12:32 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 October 2055 at 17:59 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 404 816 km (251 541 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 450 km (252 556 mi).
4 days after descending node on 30 September 2055 at 10:30 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 October 2055 at 00:14 in ♌ Leo.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 28 September 2055 at 05:09 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.612° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.758° at the point of next northern standstill on 13 October 2055 at 00:16 in ♋ Cancer.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 5 October 2055 at 18:38 in ♈ Aries 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