Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 22% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 passing about ∠17° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 2 September 2075 at 08:34.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2075 after 18 days on 24 September 2075 at 10:31.
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 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1903".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 935 of Meeus index or 1888 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 52 minutes and it is 1 hour and 11 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 1 hour and 8 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 55 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 ∠218.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠251.8°.
1 day since point of apogee on 4 September 2075 at 19:44 in ♋ Cancer 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 20 September 2075 at 11:42 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 405 401 km (251 905 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 790 km (228 534 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 03:09 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 18 September 2075 at 19:47 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 01:11 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠22.823°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.947° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 18 September 2075 at 20:04.
At 03:09 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 4 days on 10 September 2075 at 11:02 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
