Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 19% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 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 ∠0° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 26 September 2087 at 18:47.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2087 after 10 days on 12 October 2087 at 02:14.
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 ∠1917".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1085 of Meeus index or 2038 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 43 minutes and it is 2 hours and 11 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 3 hours and 59 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 4 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 ∠129.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠158.4°.
Moon is at apogee at 05:52 about 15 days since last perigee on 15 September 2087 at 08:02 in ♈ Aries 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 13 October 2087 at 09:38 in ♉ Taurus.
This apogee Moon is 405 480 km (251 954 mi) away from Earth. It is 72 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 229 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
1 day after ascending node on 30 September 2087 at 07:30 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 October 2087 at 21:45 in ♉ Taurus.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 18 September 2087 at 21:42 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.239° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-20.134° at the point of next southern standstill on 3 October 2087 at 03:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 12 October 2087 at 02:14 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