Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 8% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 days 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 ∠17° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 3 July 2008 at 02:19.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2008 after 12 days on 18 July 2008 at 07:59.
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 1.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1912" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 105 of Meeus index or 1058 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 54 minutes and it is 1 hour and 51 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 4 hours and 50 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 19 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 ∠20.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠39.2°.
3 days since point of perigee on 1 July 2008 at 21:22 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 July 2008 at 04:13 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 374 966 km (232 993 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 452 km (251 936 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 15:53 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 20 July 2008 at 03:27 in ♒ Aquarius.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 1 July 2008 at 21:36 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.541° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.566° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 July 2008 at 15:03 in ♐ Sagittarius.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 18 July 2008 at 07:59 in ♑ Capricorn 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