Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 35% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 ∠3° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 6 October 2061 at 02:57.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2061 after 21 days on 28 October 2061 at 20:12.
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 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1941" and ∠1920".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 763 of Meeus index or 1716 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 4 minutes and it is 2 hours and 54 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 1 hour and 20 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 43 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 ∠84.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠120.1°.
4 days since point of perigee on 2 October 2061 at 13:00 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 October 2061 at 11:00 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 369 235 km (229 432 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 366 km (251 883 mi).
7 days after ascending node on 29 September 2061 at 16:29 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 12 October 2061 at 16:05 in ♎ Libra.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 5 October 2061 at 08:08 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.627° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.607° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 October 2061 at 09:07 in ♑ Capricorn.
7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 13 October 2061 at 10:41 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