Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 91% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 10 August 2090 at 06:51.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2090 after 26 days on 8 September 2090 at 22:44.
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 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1120 of Meeus index or 2073 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 40 minutes and it is 24 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2090. 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 5 hours and 4 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 5 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 ∠331.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠348.5°.
Moon is at apogee at 08:23 about 15 days since last perigee on 28 July 2090 at 18:43 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 26 August 2090 at 01:13 in ♍ Virgo.
This apogee Moon is 405 821 km (252 165 mi) away from Earth. It is 413 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 888 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♓ Pisces at 01:17 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 26 August 2090 at 13:58 in ♍ Virgo.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 6 August 2090 at 13:57 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.326° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.266° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 August 2090 at 05:49 in ♋ Cancer.
14 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 11 days on 25 August 2090 at 08:58 in ♍ Virgo 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
