Day: September 5, 2023

September 5, 2023 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 Waning Gibbous. During this phase the Moon can be seen in the early morning daylight hours on the western horizon. This is the first phase after the Full Moon occurs. It lasts roughly 7 days with the Moon’s illumination growing smaller each day until the Moon becomes a Last Quarter Moon with an illumination of 50%. The average Moon rise for this phase is between 9pm and Midnight depending on the age of the phase. The moon rises later and later each night setting after sunrise in the morning.

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

Today’s Waning Gibbous Phase

The Waning Gibbous on September 5 has an illumination of 65%. 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 September 5 the Moon is 20.75 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: Waning Gibbous
Illumination: 65%
Moon Age: 20.75 days
Moon Angle: 0.52
Moon Distance: 382,767.11 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 150,814,420.19 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.

Good Day WOTC Family and Friends

Merry meet, Hail, Good Whatever Time of Day you read this!

All the birthday horoscopes from September 2nd, 3rd, and 4th are posted on their respective dates. The weekly horoscopes are posted on September 3rd where they should have been already.

For today I am only doing daily and birthday horoscopes and the current Moon phase. I will be checking emails as we are in the car when we’re not in a no service area (we hit these quite often because of living surrounded by corn and soybean fields wherever we have to travel to) part of the fun living in farm country (which I love) instead of the hustle and bustle of city life. Why only these? Well, I was up until around 6 AM this morning and finally fell asleep and didn’t get up until about 30 minutes ago. Plus missing birthday horoscopes for most of the dates so far in September. Than having to leave with Big Dawg in an hour for him to serve paperwork with me his trusty side kick doesn’t give me much time for all the regular daily posts. So, I figure the ones pertain only to the 5th of September are more important to get than trying to do everything with not a enough time to do them. Hopefully I will sleep tonight and wake up bright eyed and bushy tail already to bring you all the regular daily posts and 1st of the months posts tomorrow morning. I will go back to doing the tomorrow posts for Friday, September 8th along with all of the regular posts for Thursday, September 7th.

I know I didn’t do good on my goal for this New Moon to New Moon phase but there is always the next lunar month to strive for. I am sorry if any one was inconvenienced by me not getting all the regular daily posts up last week through today. Thank you for your patience and support while I was sick again!