Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 9% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 18 September 2079 at 05:22.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2079 after 18 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 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1923" and ∠1912".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
4 days since point of perigee on 18 September 2079 at 08:26 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 October 2079 at 03:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 372 746 km (231 614 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 405 km (251 286 mi).
8 days after ascending node on 13 September 2079 at 17:20 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 September 2079 at 16:35 in ♎ Libra.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 18 September 2079 at 20:00 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.319° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.371° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 October 2079 at 14:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 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