Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 15 July 2030 at 02:12.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2030 after 27 days on 13 August 2030 at 10:44.
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 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1911" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 377 of Meeus index or 1330 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 37 minutes and it is 1 hour and 41 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 52 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 10 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 ∠213.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠244.5°.
3 days since point of perigee on 13 July 2030 at 05:12 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 July 2030 at 04:55 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 375 129 km (233 094 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 891 km (251 588 mi).
3 days after ascending node on 12 July 2030 at 14:42 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 July 2030 at 05:01 in ♊ Gemini.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 12 July 2030 at 17:53 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.706° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.659° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 July 2030 at 10:14 in ♊ Gemini.
3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 30 July 2030 at 11:11 in ♌ Leo 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