Waxing
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase on 12 September 2086 Thursday is Waxing Crescent, 4 days young Moon is in Scorpio.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 17% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 8 September 2086 at 01:17.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1907".
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2086 after 10 days on 23 September 2086 at 01:15.
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.
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1072 of Meeus index or 2025 from Brown series.
Length of current 1072 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 39 minutes. It is 1 hour and 18 minutes shorter than next lunation 1073 length.
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 55 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 8 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠157.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠181.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
2 days after point of apogee on 10 September 2086 at 10:10 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 23 September 2086 at 10:35 in ♈ Aries.
Moon is 402 927 km (250 367 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 10 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 038 km (221 853 mi).
12 days after its descending node on 31 August 2086 at 08:57 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 14 September 2086 at 21:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
24 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
11 days after previous North standstill on 1 September 2086 at 02:04 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠22.092°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-21.940° in the next southern standstill on 15 September 2086 at 19:03 in ♐ Sagittarius.
After 10 days on 23 September 2086 at 01:15 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.