Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 79% 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 22 August 2097 at 23:52.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2097 after 25 days on 21 September 2097 at 13:00.
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 0.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1909" and ∠1900".
The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1207 of Meeus index or 2160 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 34 minutes and it is 2 hours and 38 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 59 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 ∠26.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠47.4°.
9 days since point of apogee on 18 August 2097 at 03:05 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 September 2097 at 23:07 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 375 531 km (233 344 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 774 km (227 281 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 22:42 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 9 September 2097 at 17:26 in ♎ Libra.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 18 August 2097 at 11:45 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.633° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.741° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 September 2097 at 07:23 in ♋ Cancer.
At 22:42 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 9 days on 6 September 2097 at 00:33 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