Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 3 August 2054 at 17:48.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2054 after 13 days on 18 August 2054 at 09:22.
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 4.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1891".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 675 of Meeus index or 1628 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 30 minutes and it is 1 hour and 1 minute 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 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 55 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 ∠352.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠7.4°.
Moon is at perigee at 04:47 about 12 days since last apogee on 22 July 2054 at 05:49 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 18 August 2054 at 10:18 in ♒ Aquarius.
This perigee Moon is 357 668 km (222 245 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 840 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 688 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 20:23 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 18 August 2054 at 14:57 in ♒ Aquarius.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 1 August 2054 at 11:52 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.139° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.120° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 August 2054 at 09:17 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 20:23 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 13 days on 18 August 2054 at 09:22 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
