Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% 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 ∠17° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 28 September 2095 at 12:54.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2095 after 13 days on 13 October 2095 at 09:30.
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 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1916".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1184 of Meeus index or 2137 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 38 minutes and it is 44 minutes shorter 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 4 hours and 54 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 9 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 ∠168.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠192.1°.
Moon is at apogee at 20:21 about 14 days since last perigee on 14 September 2095 at 22:53 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 13 October 2095 at 09:25 in ♈ Aries.
This apogee Moon is 406 578 km (252 636 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2095. It is 1 170 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 131 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
9 days after ascending node on 19 September 2095 at 14:10 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 4 October 2095 at 02:06 in ♐ Sagittarius.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 21 September 2095 at 14:29 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.292° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.437° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 October 2095 at 09:24 in ♑ Capricorn.
9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 13 October 2095 at 09:30 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