Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 67% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 27 September 2093 at 23:39.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2093 after 5 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 2.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1916".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1159 of Meeus index or 2112 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 17 minutes and it is 53 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 33 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 30 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 ∠247.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠284.3°.
14 days since point of apogee on 15 September 2093 at 07:53 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 October 2093 at 02:43 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 363 297 km (225 742 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 262 km (228 206 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 05:00 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 12 October 2093 at 13:29 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 28 September 2093 at 09:48 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.954° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.080° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 October 2093 at 17:32 in ♋ Cancer.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 4 October 2093 at 18:18 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