Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 31 July 2093 at 09:13.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2093 after 1 day 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 4.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1892".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1157 of Meeus index or 2110 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes and it is 55 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 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 29 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 ∠190.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠215.5°.
14 days since point of apogee on 22 July 2093 at 09:07 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 August 2093 at 03:50 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 363 302 km (225 745 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 354 km (222 671 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 17:27 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 19 August 2093 at 07:10 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 4 August 2093 at 19:32 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.651° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.668° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 August 2093 at 03:18 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 7 August 2093 at 00:23 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
