Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 1 August 2019 at 03:12.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2019 after 13 days on 15 August 2019 at 12:29.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 4.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1891".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 242 of Meeus index or 1195 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 25 minutes and it is 24 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2019. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 50 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 ∠340.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠356.3°.
Moon is at perigee at 07:08 about 12 days since last apogee on 21 July 2019 at 00:01 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 17 August 2019 at 10:50 in ♓ Pisces.
This perigee Moon is 359 398 km (223 320 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 110 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 958 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
2 days after ascending node on 30 July 2019 at 17:02 in ♋ Cancer 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 12 August 2019 at 14:45 in ♑ Capricorn.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 30 July 2019 at 08:10 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.384° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.399° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 August 2019 at 04:28 in ♑ Capricorn.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 15 August 2019 at 12:29 in ♒ Aquarius 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