Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 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 ∠21° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 27 July 2001 at 10:08.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2001 after 1 day on 4 August 2001 at 05:56.
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 5.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1787" and ∠1891".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 19 of Meeus index or 972 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 11 minutes and it is 21 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2001. 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 5 hours and 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 36 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 ∠342.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠358.1°.
11 days since point of perigee on 21 July 2001 at 20:44 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 August 2001 at 21:05 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 401 059 km (249 207 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 268 km (252 443 mi).
1 day after descending node on 1 August 2001 at 06:21 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 August 2001 at 17:05 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 1 August 2001 at 18:05 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.427° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.488° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 August 2001 at 03:52 in ♋ Cancer.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 4 August 2001 at 05:56 in ♒ Aquarius 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
