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 passing about ∠14° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 23 July 2057 at 10:09.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2057 after 16 days on 14 August 2057 at 17:21.
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 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1773" and ∠1890".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 711 of Meeus index or 1664 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 45 minutes and it is 1 hour and 22 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 2 hours longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 2 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 ∠196.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠222.5°.
1 day since point of apogee on 27 July 2057 at 15:44 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 August 2057 at 10:32 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 404 368 km (251 263 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 290 km (225 738 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 28 July 2057 at 14:55 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 11 August 2057 at 07:29 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 08:55 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.709°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.760° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 11 August 2057 at 22:52.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 31 July 2057 at 14:32 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
