Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 37% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 6 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 passing about ∠5° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 5 July 2024 at 22:57.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2024 after 8 days on 21 July 2024 at 10:17.
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 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 303 of Meeus index or 1256 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 16 minutes and it is 2 hours and 27 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 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 41 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 ∠93.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠127.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 08:12 about 14 days since last perigee on 27 June 2024 at 11:45 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next perigee on 24 July 2024 at 05:43 in ♓ Pisces.
This apogee Moon is 404 363 km (251 260 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 045 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 346 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 22:27 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 26 July 2024 at 05:33 in ♈ Aries.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 5 July 2024 at 00:08 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.352° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.404° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 July 2024 at 10:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 21 July 2024 at 10:17 in ♑ Capricorn 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