Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 24% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 about ∠25° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 12 September 2093 at 15:15.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2093 after 19 days on 4 October 2093 at 18:18.
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 7.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1909".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1158 of Meeus index or 2111 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 23 minutes and it is 1 hour and 6 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 1 hour and 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 24 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 ∠215.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠247.8°.
Moon is at apogee at 07:53 about 11 days since last perigee on 3 September 2093 at 09:46 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 1 October 2093 at 02:43 in ♒ Aquarius.
This apogee Moon is 404 825 km (251 547 mi) away from Earth. It is 583 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 884 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 11:15 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 29 September 2093 at 05:00 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 14 September 2093 at 09:50 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.823° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.954° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 September 2093 at 09:48 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 11:15 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 5 days on 20 September 2093 at 18:16 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