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 first ∠2° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 16 July 2017 at 19:26.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2017 after 17 days on 7 August 2017 at 18:11.
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 4.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 216 of Meeus index or 1169 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 15 minutes and it is 1 hour and 30 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 5 hours and 29 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 40 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 ∠11° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠27.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 17:09 about 15 days since last apogee on 6 July 2017 at 04:27 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 2 August 2017 at 17:55 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This perigee Moon is 361 238 km (224 463 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 270 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 9 118 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
9 days after descending node on 12 July 2017 at 05:17 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 25 July 2017 at 00:46 in ♍ Virgo.
At 22:11 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠19.413°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-19.393° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 4 August 2017 at 18:17.
23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 23 July 2017 at 09:46 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