Day: August 19, 2023

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August 19, 2023 Current Moon Phase and Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions

Current Moon Phase

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious, you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else was born.

From MoonGiant.com

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waxing Crescent Phase. Best seen in the west after the sun dips below the horizon at sunset. This is the first Phase after the New Moon and is a great time to see the features of the moon’s surface. The moon is close to the sun in the sky and mostly dark except for the right edge of the moon which becomes brighter as the days get closer to the next phase which is a First Quarter with a 50% illumination.

Visit the August 2023 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waxing Crescent Phase

The Waxing Crescent on August 19 has an illumination of 8%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On August 19 the Moon is 2.77 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

Phase Details

Phase: Waxing Crescent
Illumination: 8%
Moon Age: 2.77 days
Moon Angle: 0.50
Moon Distance: 401,373.51 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 151,387,760.75 km

Useful Moon Resources

Check the weather before a night of Moon gazing at weather.com

For a list of all the current meteor showers visit American Meteor Society

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Northern Hemisphere’s Planetary Positions

If you need to calculate the planetary positions in either hemisphere you can use this for a specific use and time in your local time zone, click on this link

Currentplanetarypositions.com

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link

For Your Local Time and Date

Northwestern Hemisphere

This local time is in Los Angeles, California, USA

August 19, 2023
11:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM PDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:26 Leo 43
Moon:05 Libra 32
Mercury:21 Virgo 11
Venus:16 Leo 36 Rx
Mars:25 Virgo 09
Jupiter:15 Taurus 11
Saturn:04 Pisces 24 Rx
Uranus:23 Taurus 02
Neptune:27 Pisces 04 Rx
Pluto:28 Capricorn 28 Rx

True Lunar Node:26 Aries 28 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:27 Aries 58 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):25 Leo 01

Chiron:19 Aries 39 Rx
Ceres:19 Libra 26
Pallas:18 Virgo 38
Juno:02 Leo 10
Vesta:22 Gemini 23

Eris:25 Aries 11 Rx

Fire:8
Earth:6
Air:3
Water:2
Cardinal:7
Fixed:6
Mutable:6

Northern Hemisphere

This local time is in Chicago, Illinois, USA

August 19, 2023
09:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:26 Leo 38
Moon:04 Libra 32
Mercury:21 Virgo 09
Venus:16 Leo 39 Rx
Mars:25 Virgo 06
Jupiter:15 Taurus 11
Saturn:04 Pisces 24 Rx
Uranus:23 Taurus 02
Neptune:27 Pisces 04 Rx
Pluto:28 Capricorn 29 Rx

True Lunar Node:26 Aries 28 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:27 Aries 59 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):25 Leo 01

Chiron:19 Aries 39 Rx
Ceres:19 Libra 24
Pallas:18 Virgo 36
Juno:02 Leo 07
Vesta:22 Gemini 21

Eris:25 Aries 11 Rx

Fire:8
Earth:6
Air:3
Water:2
Cardinal:7
Fixed:6
Mutable:6

Northeastern Hemisphere

This local time is in Frankfurt, Germany, Europe

19 August 2023
02:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:26 Leo 21
Moon:01 Libra 03
Mercury:21 Virgo 03
Venus:16 Leo 49 Rx
Mars:24 Virgo 55
Jupiter:15 Taurus 10
Saturn:04 Pisces 25 Rx
Uranus:23 Taurus 02
Neptune:27 Pisces 04 Rx
Pluto:28 Capricorn 29 Rx

True Lunar Node:26 Aries 29 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:28 Aries 00 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):24 Leo 59

Chiron:19 Aries 39 Rx
Ceres:19 Libra 17
Pallas:18 Virgo 28
Juno:01 Leo 58
Vesta:22 Gemini 15

Eris:25 Aries 11 Rx

Fire:8
Earth:6
Air:3
Water:2
Cardinal:7
Fixed:6
Mutable:6

Good day WOTC Family and Friends!

It was long night filled with nightmares when I finally fell asleep after being up for 22 hours. Now it is going to be a long after only about 90 minutes of sleep since yesterday morning. But I am here still trying to reach the goal I set for myself on the August new Moon to not miss any days of posting until the new Moon in September. Excuse any typos or the usual order of posts not being in their usual line up and there might be a couple of posts missing. I hope I don’t zone out and just make a total mess of WOTC this morning. I will do the best I can for this moment in time while posting. After this I hope to get a couple or three solid hours of sleep before it is time to feed our fur kids, make us something to eat than get on the road to serve more people paperwork. Thank goodness I don’t do any of the driving so if I fall asleep in the car it’s not such a big deal.

Wishing you all a spectacular Saturday full of whatever you feel like doing and with whom you want to do it with!