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Moon ♋ Cancer
Moon phase on 30 July 2019 Tuesday is Waning Crescent, 27 days old Moon is in Cancer.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 4% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 25 July 2019 at 01:18.
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1930" and ∠1890".
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2019 after 16 days on 15 August 2019 at 12:29.
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.
The Moon is 27 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 241 of Meeus index or 1194 from Brown series.
Length of current 241 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 56 minutes. It is 31 minutes longer than next lunation 242 length.
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 48 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 21 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠321.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠340.5°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
9 days after point of apogee on 21 July 2019 at 00:01 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 2 August 2019 at 07:08 in ♌ Leo.
Moon is 371 422 km (230 791 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 2 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 359 398 km (223 320 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 17:02 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet descending node on 12 August 2019 at 14:45 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 17:02 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
At 08:10 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠22.384°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-22.399° in its southern standstill point on 12 August 2019 at 04:28 in ♑ Capricorn.
After 1 day on 1 August 2019 at 03:12 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.