Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% 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 ∠9° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 13 July 2001 at 18:45.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2001 after 15 days on 4 August 2001 at 05:56.
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 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1940" 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 18 of Meeus index or 971 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 47 minutes and it is 36 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 4 hours and 57 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 12 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 ∠324.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠342.5°.
10 days since point of apogee on 9 July 2001 at 11:24 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 July 2001 at 20:44 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 369 439 km (229 559 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 027 km (223 089 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 08:24 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 1 August 2001 at 06:21 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 17:53 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.418°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.427° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 1 August 2001 at 18:05.
At 08:24 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 1 day on 20 July 2001 at 19:44 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