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 about ∠23° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 1 October 2056 at 23:33.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2056 after 15 days on 23 October 2056 at 11:46.
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 0.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1922" and ∠1921".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 701 of Meeus index or 1654 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 13 minutes and it is 7 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2056. 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 3 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 38 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 ∠317.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠337.6°.
9 days since point of apogee on 28 September 2056 at 07:58 in ♉ Taurus 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 10 October 2056 at 11:04 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 372 881 km (231 698 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 834 km (223 590 mi).
4 days after ascending node on 2 October 2056 at 15:45 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 15 October 2056 at 06:24 in ♑ Capricorn.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 2 October 2056 at 03:51 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.376° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.495° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 October 2056 at 21:56 in ♑ Capricorn.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 9 October 2056 at 03:00 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