Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 60% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 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 passing about ∠6° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 4 September 2066 at 01:37.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2066 after 23 days on 3 October 2066 at 12:25.
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 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1782" and ∠1906".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 824 of Meeus index or 1777 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 58 minutes and it is 1 hour and 3 minutes longer 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 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 49 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 ∠236.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠272.1°.
9 days since point of perigee on 1 September 2066 at 01:49 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 September 2066 at 22:49 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 402 217 km (249 926 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 308 km (251 225 mi).
10 days after ascending node on 30 August 2066 at 14:05 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 September 2066 at 00:19 in ♋ Cancer.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 29 August 2066 at 07:59 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.516° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠24.408° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 September 2066 at 14:21 in ♊ Gemini.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 19 September 2066 at 13:47 in ♍ Virgo 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