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 ∠19° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 7 days on 15 July 2093 at 10:54.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2093 after 15 days on 7 August 2093 at 00:23.
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 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1156 of Meeus index or 2109 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 31 minutes and it is 13 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2093. 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 47 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 16 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 ∠167.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠190.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 09:07 about 13 days since last perigee on 8 July 2093 at 18:17 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 6 August 2093 at 03:50 in ♒ Aquarius.
This apogee Moon is 406 411 km (252 532 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2093. It is 1 003 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 298 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
13 days after descending node on 9 July 2093 at 06:40 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 23 July 2093 at 01:17 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 21 July 2093 at 21:21 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.635° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.651° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 August 2093 at 19:32 in ♑ Capricorn.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 23 July 2093 at 12:36 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