Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% 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 ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 30 August 2063 at 19:04.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2063 after 1 day on 7 September 2063 at 20:53.
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 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1904".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 787 of Meeus index or 1740 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 4 minutes and it is 1 hour and 21 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 40 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 29 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 ∠358.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠14.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 18:12 about 13 days since last perigee on 24 August 2063 at 02:53 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 21 September 2063 at 13:02 in ♍ Virgo.
This apogee Moon is 406 190 km (252 395 mi) away from Earth. It is 782 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 519 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 22:09 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 20 September 2063 at 16:51 in ♌ Leo.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 1 September 2063 at 05:30 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.251° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.212° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 September 2063 at 22:42 in ♊ Gemini.
At 22:09 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 1 day on 7 September 2063 at 20:53 in ♓ Pisces 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