Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 35% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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.
Slide horizontally to discover the moon phase on nearby dates.
Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 21 September 2084 at 20:59.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2084 after 20 days on 13 October 2084 at 20:12.
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 7.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1913".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1047 of Meeus index or 2000 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 32 minutes and it is 1 hour and 2 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 48 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 15 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 ∠232.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠268.2°.
Moon is at apogee at 10:54 about 11 days since last perigee on 11 September 2084 at 14:43 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 8 October 2084 at 09:29 in ♒ Aquarius.
This apogee Moon is 404 391 km (251 277 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 017 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 318 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♋ Cancer at 08:24 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 7 October 2084 at 00:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 21 September 2084 at 01:38 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.317° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.185° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 October 2084 at 04:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 29 September 2084 at 21:16 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