Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 36% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 6 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 28 September 2076 at 05:27.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2076 after 7 days on 12 October 2076 at 09:37.
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 0.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1921" and ∠1919".
The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 949 of Meeus index or 1902 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 23 minutes and it is 45 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 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 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 ∠219.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠254.1°.
10 days since point of apogee on 24 September 2076 at 11:16 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 October 2076 at 06:57 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 373 071 km (231 816 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 695 km (225 368 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 00:05 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 16 October 2076 at 15:38 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 21 September 2076 at 02:19 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.689° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-24.833° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 October 2076 at 13:46 in ♑ Capricorn.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 12 October 2076 at 09:37 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