Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 94% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 ∠19° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 11 September 2079 at 05:36.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2079 after 27 days on 10 October 2079 at 17:23.
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 ∠1910" and ∠1907".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 985 of Meeus index or 1938 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 3 minutes and it is 3 hours and 11 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 41 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 28 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 ∠50.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠80.4°.
9 days since point of apogee on 4 September 2079 at 08:27 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 September 2079 at 08:26 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 375 230 km (233 157 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 896 km (229 843 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 17:20 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 26 September 2079 at 16:35 in ♎ Libra.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 5 September 2079 at 06:20 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.246° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.319° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 September 2079 at 20:00 in ♊ Gemini.
At 17:20 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 11 days on 25 September 2079 at 04:06 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