Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 72% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 20 August 2026 at 02:46.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2026 after 5 days on 28 August 2026 at 04:18.
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 7.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1897".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 329 of Meeus index or 1282 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 50 minutes and it is 2 hours and 33 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 2 hours and 54 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 15 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 ∠36.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠61.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 08:20 about 11 days since last perigee on 10 August 2026 at 11:18 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 6 September 2026 at 20:26 in ♋ Cancer.
This apogee Moon is 404 644 km (251 434 mi) away from Earth. It is 764 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 065 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
9 days after descending node on 13 August 2026 at 09:56 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 August 2026 at 18:47 in ♒ Aquarius.
At 10:59 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.123°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.109° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 5 September 2026 at 06:12.
22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 28 August 2026 at 04:18 in ♓ Pisces 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