Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 44% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 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 passing first ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 7 days on 25 September 2079 at 04:06.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2079 after 8 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 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1918".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 986 of Meeus index or 1939 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 14 minutes and it is 2 hours and 56 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 30 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 33 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 ∠80.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠116.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 03:57 about 13 days since last perigee on 18 September 2079 at 08:26 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next perigee on 14 October 2079 at 02:01 in ♊ Gemini.
This apogee Moon is 404 405 km (251 286 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 003 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 304 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
5 days after descending node on 26 September 2079 at 16:35 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 October 2079 at 01:09 in ♈ Aries.
At 14:22 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.371°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2079. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.379° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 16 October 2079 at 01:29.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 10 October 2079 at 17:23 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