Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 5 days on 11 July 2088 at 17:52.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2088 after 16 days on 2 August 2088 at 13:39.
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 4.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1094 of Meeus index or 2047 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 45 minutes and it is 52 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2088. 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 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 10 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 ∠3.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠18.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 05:29 about 15 days since last apogee on 2 July 2088 at 03:52 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 29 July 2088 at 13:38 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This perigee Moon is 359 287 km (223 251 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 221 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 069 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
4 days after descending node on 12 July 2088 at 16:44 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 25 July 2088 at 07:29 in ♏ Scorpio.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 16 July 2088 at 02:03 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.354° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.292° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 July 2088 at 12:39 in ♐ Sagittarius.
19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 18 July 2088 at 08:38 in ♋ Cancer 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
