Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 12% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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.
Slide horizontally to discover the moon phase on nearby dates.
Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 25 July 2008 at 18:42.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2008 after 18 days on 16 August 2008 at 21:16.
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 4.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1890".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
Moon is at perigee at 23:24 about 15 days since last apogee on 14 July 2008 at 04:13 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 10 August 2008 at 20:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This perigee Moon is 363 887 km (226 109 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 379 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 6 469 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
9 days after ascending node on 20 July 2008 at 03:27 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 2 August 2008 at 01:21 in ♌ Leo.
At 06:17 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠27.598°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-27.611° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 11 August 2008 at 22:13.
9 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 2 days on 1 August 2008 at 10:13 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
