Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 74% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 29 August 2091 at 00:39.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2091 after 24 days on 27 September 2091 at 15:56.
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 7.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1903".
The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1133 of Meeus index or 2086 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 13 minutes and it is 19 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 3 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 38 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 ∠310.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠332.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 01:49 about 15 days since last perigee on 18 August 2091 at 06:08 in ♎ Libra 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 15 September 2091 at 01:40 in ♎ Libra.
This apogee Moon is 405 142 km (251 744 mi) away from Earth. It is 266 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 567 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
5 days after descending node on 28 August 2091 at 18:22 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 12 September 2091 at 03:32 in ♍ Virgo.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 24 August 2091 at 11:30 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.873° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.885° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 September 2091 at 00:27 in ♋ Cancer.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 13 September 2091 at 09:34 in ♍ Virgo 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