Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 69% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 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 first ∠3° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 12 July 2033 at 09:29.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2033 after 24 days on 10 August 2033 at 18:08.
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 4.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 414 of Meeus index or 1367 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 6 minutes and it is 2 hours and 21 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 1 hour and 39 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 31 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 ∠74.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠108.5°.
1 day since point of perigee on 16 July 2033 at 09:27 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 31 July 2033 at 23:13 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 363 382 km (225 795 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 734 km (251 490 mi).
12 days after ascending node on 5 July 2033 at 01:29 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 18 July 2033 at 09:20 in ♈ Aries.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 10 July 2033 at 14:02 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.676° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.624° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 July 2033 at 11:24 in ♊ Gemini.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 26 July 2033 at 08:12 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