Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 17% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 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 first ∠0° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 30 July 2030 at 11:11.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2030 after 9 days on 13 August 2030 at 10:44.
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 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1909" and ∠1891".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 378 of Meeus index or 1331 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 56 minutes and it is 1 hour and 9 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 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 21 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 ∠244.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠279.9°.
9 days since point of apogee on 25 July 2030 at 04:55 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 9 August 2030 at 22:50 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 375 532 km (233 345 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 742 km (227 883 mi).
8 days after descending node on 26 July 2030 at 05:01 in ♊ Gemini 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 8 August 2030 at 19:44 in ♐ Sagittarius.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 26 July 2030 at 10:14 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.659° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.572° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 August 2030 at 01:58 in ♐ Sagittarius.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 13 August 2030 at 10:44 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