Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 5% 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 ∠24° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 7 July 2007 at 16:54.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2007 after 17 days on 30 July 2007 at 00:48.
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 2.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1930" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 92 of Meeus index or 1045 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 51 minutes and it is 2 hours and 8 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 16 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 ∠38.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠64.2°.
2 days since point of perigee on 9 July 2007 at 21:38 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 July 2007 at 08:43 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 371 340 km (230 740 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 152 km (251 128 mi).
7 days after ascending node on 5 July 2007 at 01:39 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 18 July 2007 at 00:18 in ♍ Virgo.
At 16:38 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.251°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.300° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 26 July 2007 at 23:22.
7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 14 July 2007 at 12:04 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