Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 7 August 2053 at 10:25.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2053 after 16 days on 29 August 2053 at 07:53.
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 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 662 of Meeus index or 1615 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 15 minutes and it is 1 hour and 40 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 29 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 40 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 ∠7.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠23.3°.
Moon is at perigee at 14:58 about 15 days since last apogee on 28 July 2053 at 06:44 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 24 August 2053 at 18:27 in ♑ Capricorn.
This perigee Moon is 360 223 km (223 832 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 285 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 133 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
9 days after descending node on 2 August 2053 at 22:15 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 August 2053 at 17:54 in ♍ Virgo.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 10 August 2053 at 19:35 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.377° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.341° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 August 2053 at 02:41 in ♑ Capricorn.
24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 14 August 2053 at 00:41 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
