Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day 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 about ∠20° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 25 August 2090 at 08:58.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2090 after 13 days on 8 September 2090 at 22:44.
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 3.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1899".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1121 of Meeus index or 2074 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 4 minutes and it is 1 hour and 2 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 4 hours and 40 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 29 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 ∠348.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠3.8°.
Moon is at perigee at 01:13 about 12 days since last apogee on 13 August 2090 at 08:23 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 9 September 2090 at 14:56 in ♓ Pisces.
This perigee Moon is 358 032 km (222 471 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 476 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 324 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 13:58 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 9 September 2090 at 07:13 in ♓ Pisces.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 21 August 2090 at 05:49 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.266° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.232° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 September 2090 at 19:58 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 13:58 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 13 days on 8 September 2090 at 22:44 in ♓ Pisces 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