Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 31% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 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 ∠15° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 24 July 2025 at 19:11.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2025 after 9 days on 9 August 2025 at 07:55.
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% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1780" and ∠1890".
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 316 of Meeus index or 1269 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 55 minutes and it is 2 hours and 53 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 1 hour and 49 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 20 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 ∠60.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠93°.
9 days since point of perigee on 20 July 2025 at 13:52 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 August 2025 at 20:37 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 402 629 km (250 182 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 164 km (251 136 mi).
2 days after descending node on 28 July 2025 at 08:30 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 August 2025 at 14:53 in ♓ Pisces.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 22 July 2025 at 09:43 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.474° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.534° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 August 2025 at 13:37 in ♐ Sagittarius.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 9 August 2025 at 07:55 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