Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ∠13° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 21 July 2003 at 07:01.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2003 after 15 days on 12 August 2003 at 04:48.
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% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1811" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 27 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°.
4 days 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 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 August 2003 at 14:06 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 395 807 km (245 943 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 437 km (229 558 mi).
3 days after ascending node on 23 July 2003 at 18:44 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 6 August 2003 at 06:49 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 03:55 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.493°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.553° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 9 August 2003 at 06:19.
3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day 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