Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% 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 ∠20° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 16 September 2073 at 08:52.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2073 after 27 days on 16 October 2073 at 01:54.
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 7.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1910".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 911 of Meeus index or 1864 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 29 minutes and it is 23 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2073. 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 4 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 54 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 ∠334.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠351.1°.
14 days since point of perigee on 3 September 2073 at 14:51 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 September 2073 at 03:23 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 405 467 km (251 946 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 134 km (252 360 mi).
4 days after descending node on 13 September 2073 at 16:02 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 28 September 2073 at 04:00 in ♌ Leo.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 10 September 2073 at 08:21 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.604° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.692° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 September 2073 at 01:43 in ♋ Cancer.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 1 October 2073 at 10:21 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