Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 14% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 30 September 2067 at 06:01.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2067 after 17 days on 22 October 2067 at 10:56.
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 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1919".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
1 day since point of apogee on 3 October 2067 at 12:21 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 October 2067 at 10:41 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 405 263 km (251 819 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 700 km (227 235 mi).
6 days after descending node on 28 September 2067 at 09:08 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 12 October 2067 at 20:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 28 September 2067 at 17:33 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.519° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.403° at the point of next southern standstill on 13 October 2067 at 06:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 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