Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 4 September 2100 at 08:49.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2100 after 12 days on 18 September 2100 at 11:32.
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 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1948" and ∠1903".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1245 of Meeus index or 2198 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 13 minutes and it is 1 minute 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 3 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 38 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 ∠320.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠340.4°.
10 days since point of apogee on 25 August 2100 at 23:00 in ♉ Taurus 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 6 September 2100 at 19:23 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 368 048 km (228 694 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 868 km (226 097 mi).
1 day after descending node on 4 September 2100 at 02:42 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 September 2100 at 01:56 in ♓ Pisces.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 29 August 2100 at 17:37 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.356° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.345° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 September 2100 at 14:42 in ♐ Sagittarius.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 18 September 2100 at 11:32 in ♓ Pisces 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