Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 30% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 ∠24° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 21 July 2003 at 07:01.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2003 after 19 days on 12 August 2003 at 04:48.
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 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 43 of Meeus index or 996 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 14 minutes and it is 1 hour and 40 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 30 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 39 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 ∠234.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠268.5°.
1 day since point of apogee on 22 July 2003 at 19:37 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 August 2003 at 14:06 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 405 349 km (251 872 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 437 km (229 558 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 18:44 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 6 August 2003 at 06:49 in ♏ Scorpio.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 12 July 2003 at 22:53 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.465° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.493° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 July 2003 at 03:55 in ♋ Cancer.
At 18:44 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 5 days on 29 July 2003 at 06:53 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