Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 66% 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 passing about ∠9° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 11 September 2100 at 00:35.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2100 after 5 days on 18 September 2100 at 11:32.
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 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1924" and ∠1907".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle 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°.
5 days since point of perigee on 6 September 2100 at 19:23 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 September 2100 at 16:20 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 372 539 km (231 485 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 610 km (252 034 mi).
8 days after descending node on 4 September 2100 at 02:42 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 September 2100 at 01:56 in ♓ Pisces.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 11 September 2100 at 14:42 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.345° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.300° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 September 2100 at 01:39 in ♊ Gemini.
22 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 5 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