Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 59% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 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 passing first ∠4° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 30 July 2091 at 12:01.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2091 after 22 days on 29 August 2091 at 00:39.
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 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1892".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1132 of Meeus index or 2085 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 6 minutes and it is 53 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 and 38 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 31 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 ∠280.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠310.2°.
Moon is at apogee at 07:42 about 14 days since last perigee on 23 July 2091 at 04:02 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next perigee on 18 August 2091 at 06:08 in ♎ Libra.
This apogee Moon is 404 324 km (251 235 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 084 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 385 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
5 days after descending node on 1 August 2091 at 10:40 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 August 2091 at 17:38 in ♌ Leo.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 28 July 2091 at 05:06 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.921° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.890° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 August 2091 at 15:21 in ♋ Cancer.
18 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 8 days on 15 August 2091 at 00:22 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
