Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 7 days on 11 July 2031 at 11:50.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2031 after 15 days on 3 August 2031 at 01:45.
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 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 389 of Meeus index or 1342 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 16 minutes and it is 24 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2031. 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 2 hours and 31 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 31 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 ∠165.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠188.7°.
Moon is at apogee at 14:28 about 13 days since last perigee on 4 July 2031 at 21:14 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 2 August 2031 at 06:47 in ♑ Capricorn.
This apogee Moon is 406 535 km (252 609 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2031. It is 1 127 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 174 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
3 days after descending node on 14 July 2031 at 12:38 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 28 July 2031 at 23:54 in ♏ Scorpio.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 16 July 2031 at 09:01 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.045° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.951° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 July 2031 at 15:45 in ♐ Sagittarius.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 19 July 2031 at 13:40 in ♋ Cancer 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