Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 71% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 17 September 2075 at 15:25.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2075 after 4 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 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1910".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 936 of Meeus index or 1889 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 41 minutes and it is 49 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 3 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 6 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 ∠251.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠287.7°.
14 days 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 day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 20 September 2075 at 11:42 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 363 471 km (225 850 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 790 km (228 534 mi).
1 day after descending node on 18 September 2075 at 19:47 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 2 October 2075 at 05:26 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 18 September 2075 at 20:04 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.947° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.070° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 October 2075 at 08:38 in ♋ Cancer.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 24 September 2075 at 10:31 in ♈ Aries the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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