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Moon* ♍ Virgo
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 1% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 1% and getting smaller. The 28 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 5 September 2072 at 16:19.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon in ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1907".
Harvest Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2072 after 15 days on 27 September 2072 at 08:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 12 September 2072 at 09:07
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 19 September 2072 at 04:58
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 27 September 2072 at 08:43
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 5 October 2072 at 02:28
Moderate tide
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.
Lunation 898 / 1851
The Moon is 28 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 898 of Meeus index or 1851 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 46 minutes. It is 1 hour and 2 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠350.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠350.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠5.6°.
Moon before apogee
13 days after point of apogee on 29 August 2072 at 00:37 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 September 2072 at 01:13 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 363 335 km
The Moon is 363 335 km (225 766 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 388 km (222 071 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 16:07 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 25 September 2072 at 05:16 in ♓ Pisces.
New draconic month
At 16:07 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 7 September 2072 at 06:46 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.564°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.581° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 September 2072 at 20:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 12 September 2072 at 09:07 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.
