Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 20% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 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 about ∠6° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 19 August 2022 at 04:36.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2022 after 18 days on 10 September 2022 at 09:59.
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 7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1897".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 279 of Meeus index or 1232 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 22 minutes and it is 45 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 1 hour and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠202° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠230.2°.
Moon is at apogee at 21:53 about 12 days since last perigee on 10 August 2022 at 17:14 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next perigee on 7 September 2022 at 18:17 in ♒ Aquarius.
This apogee Moon is 405 419 km (251 916 mi) away from Earth. It is 11 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 290 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
4 days after ascending node on 18 August 2022 at 10:59 in ♉ Taurus 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 1 September 2022 at 21:12 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 15:08 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠27.100°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-27.219° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 5 September 2022 at 13:56.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 27 August 2022 at 08:17 in ♍ Virgo 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
