Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 87% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 28 August 2007 at 10:35.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2007 after 26 days on 26 September 2007 at 19:45.
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 3.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1901".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 94 of Meeus index or 1047 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 42 minutes and it is 2 hours and 34 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 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 5 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠97.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠131.4°.
Moon is at perigee at 00:12 about 11 days since last apogee on 19 August 2007 at 03:28 in ♏ Scorpio 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 15 September 2007 at 21:06 in ♏ Scorpio.
This perigee Moon is 364 174 km (226 287 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 666 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 6 182 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
2 days after ascending node on 28 August 2007 at 14:27 in ♒ Aquarius 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 10 September 2007 at 14:49 in ♍ Virgo.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 23 August 2007 at 08:02 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.377° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.380° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 September 2007 at 04:28 in ♊ Gemini.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 11 September 2007 at 12:44 in ♍ Virgo 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