Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 10% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 days 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 ∠22° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 3 August 2073 at 17:04.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2073 after 11 days on 17 August 2073 at 17:45.
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 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1892".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 910 of Meeus index or 1863 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 49 minutes and it is 20 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 3 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 14 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 ∠313.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠334.3°.
Moon is at perigee at 17:22 about 11 days since last apogee on 25 July 2073 at 19:45 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next apogee on 22 August 2073 at 13:26 in ♈ Aries.
This perigee Moon is 365 543 km (227 138 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 035 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 4 813 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
2 days after ascending node on 4 August 2073 at 08:57 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 17 August 2073 at 10:02 in ♒ Aquarius.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 1 August 2073 at 07:46 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.570° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.556° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 August 2073 at 02:57 in ♑ Capricorn.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 17 August 2073 at 17:45 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
