Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 29 September 2084 at 21:16.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2084 after 12 days on 13 October 2084 at 20:12.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1883" and ∠1917".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1048 of Meeus index or 2001 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 30 minutes and it is 38 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 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 55 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 ∠268.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠301.9°.
8 days since point of apogee on 23 September 2084 at 10:54 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 October 2084 at 09:29 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 380 603 km (236 496 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 624 km (229 674 mi).
8 days after descending node on 23 September 2084 at 08:24 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 7 October 2084 at 00:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
10 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 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.185° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 October 2084 at 04:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
21 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 12 days on 13 October 2084 at 20:12 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