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Moon* ♋ Cancer
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 1% and getting smaller. The 28 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 7 days on 11 July 2031 at 11:50.
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1888".
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.
The Moon is 28 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 389 of Meeus index or 1342 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 16 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2031. It is 24 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠165.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠188.7°.
Moon is at apogee at 14:28. It is 13 days after previous perigee on 4 July 2031 at 21:14 in ♑ Capricorn. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 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 located south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 28 July 2031 at 23:54 in ♏ Scorpio.
16 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
2 days since the previous 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.
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.