Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 20 July 2001 at 19:44.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2001 after 13 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 4.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 19 of Meeus index or 972 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 11 minutes and it is 21 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2001. 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 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 36 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 ∠342.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠358.1°.
Moon is at perigee at 20:44 about 12 days since last apogee on 9 July 2001 at 11:24 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 5 August 2001 at 21:05 in ♒ Aquarius.
This perigee Moon is 359 027 km (223 089 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 481 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 329 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
2 days after ascending node on 19 July 2001 at 08:24 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 1 August 2001 at 06:21 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 19 July 2001 at 17:53 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.418° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.427° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 August 2001 at 18:05 in ♑ Capricorn.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 4 August 2001 at 05:56 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