Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 15% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 5 October 2091 at 19:53.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2091 after 17 days on 27 October 2091 at 09:18.
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 0.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1914" and ∠1921".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1134 of Meeus index or 2087 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 54 minutes and it is 19 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2091. 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 50 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 19 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 ∠332.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠349.5°.
8 days since point of apogee on 30 September 2091 at 16:41 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 October 2091 at 09:20 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 374 488 km (232 696 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 592 km (222 197 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 12:42 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 22 October 2091 at 03:28 in ♓ Pisces.
4 days since the last northern standstill on 5 October 2091 at 08:31 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.007° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.095° at the point of next southern standstill on 17 October 2091 at 23:45 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 12:42 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 3 days on 12 October 2091 at 18:29 in ♎ Libra 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