Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 17% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 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 ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 6 October 2080 at 08:30.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2080 after 19 days on 28 October 2080 at 16:13.
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 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1922".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 998 of Meeus index or 1951 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 19 minutes and it is 2 hours and 34 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 2 hours and 25 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 44 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 ∠29.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠51.5°.
Moon is at perigee at 17:45 about 15 days since last apogee on 23 September 2080 at 20:47 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 21 October 2080 at 15:25 in ♒ Aquarius.
This perigee Moon is 366 709 km (227 862 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 201 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 3 647 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
10 days after ascending node on 28 September 2080 at 19:44 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 11 October 2080 at 21:44 in ♍ Virgo.
4 days since the last northern standstill on 5 October 2080 at 09:53 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.682° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.649° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 October 2080 at 10:47 in ♑ Capricorn.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 13 October 2080 at 02:44 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