Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 14% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 22 July 2030 at 08:07.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2030 after 17 days on 13 August 2030 at 10:44.
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 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 377 of Meeus index or 1330 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 37 minutes and it is 1 hour and 41 minutes 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 52 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 10 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠213.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠244.5°.
1 day since point of apogee on 25 July 2030 at 04:55 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 9 August 2030 at 22:50 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 404 949 km (251 624 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 742 km (227 883 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 05:01 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 8 August 2030 at 19:44 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 10:14 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠22.659°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.572° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 9 August 2030 at 01:58.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 30 July 2030 at 11:11 in ♌ Leo the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth 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
