Our Moon reaches perigee, (closest distance to Earth), for this orbit on Saturday September 8th. At that time the Moon will be at a distance of 28.325 Earth diameters (361,355 km or 224,535 miles) from the Earth.
Saturday morning September 8th the very thin 28-day old waning crescent Moon will be about 1.5o from the star Regulus and about 2-3o from the innermost planet Mercury.
*Click here to read my 2006 Scope on the Sky column “The Real Shape of the Moon’s Orbit”. (PDF)
Read this very informative article about the Earth-Moon system and their orbital motions, written by Joe Hanson. “Do We Orbit the Moon?”
Click here to go to the Qué tal in the Current Skies web site for monthly observing information, or here to go to bobs-spaces.
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