Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 ∠22° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 23 September 2067 at 00:54.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2067 after 27 days on 22 October 2067 at 10:56.
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 0.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1919" and ∠1913".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 837 of Meeus index or 1790 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 19 minutes and it is 33 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 2 hours and 35 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 28 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 ∠207.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠237.7°.
3 days since point of perigee on 21 September 2067 at 11:31 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 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 October 2067 at 12:21 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 373 599 km (232 144 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 262 km (251 818 mi).
8 days after ascending node on 15 September 2067 at 19:19 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 28 September 2067 at 09:08 in ♊ Gemini.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 16 September 2067 at 01:16 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.627° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.519° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 September 2067 at 17:33 in ♊ Gemini.
8 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 13 days on 8 October 2067 at 09:28 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