Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 95% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 21 September 2059 at 17:18.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2059 after 27 days on 21 October 2059 at 02:15.
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 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1958" and ∠1913".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 738 of Meeus index or 1691 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 49 minutes and it is 33 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠173.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠197.3°.
1 day since point of perigee on 21 September 2059 at 12:34 in ♓ Pisces 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 4 October 2059 at 18:25 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 366 130 km (227 503 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 424 km (252 540 mi).
11 days after descending node on 12 September 2059 at 09:18 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 25 September 2059 at 01:07 in ♉ Taurus.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 16 September 2059 at 04:41 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.003° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.089° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 September 2059 at 16:57 in ♋ Cancer.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 6 October 2059 at 15:50 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