Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 36% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 first ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 7 August 2034 at 06:50.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2034 after 21 days on 29 August 2034 at 16:49.
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 4.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1893".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 427 of Meeus index or 1380 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 38 minutes and it is 2 hours and 43 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 3 hours and 6 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 3 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 ∠45.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠73.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 08:24 about 14 days since last apogee on 24 July 2034 at 17:20 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 21 August 2034 at 12:02 in ♏ Scorpio.
This perigee Moon is 369 503 km (229 599 mi) away from Earth. It is 6 995 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 853 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
4 days after descending node on 3 August 2034 at 16:44 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 16 August 2034 at 16:01 in ♍ Virgo.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 28 July 2034 at 08:38 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.336° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.276° at the point of next northern standstill on 10 August 2034 at 13:32 in ♊ Gemini.
19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 14 August 2034 at 03:53 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