Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 27% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 26 August 2035 at 09:08.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2035 after 20 days on 17 September 2035 at 14:23.
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 3.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1900".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 440 of Meeus index or 1393 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 48 minutes and it is 2 hours and 19 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 56 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 13 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 ∠25.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠46.4°.
14 days since point of apogee on 14 August 2035 at 06:09 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 August 2035 at 02:28 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 363 298 km (225 743 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 533 km (227 132 mi).
8 days after descending node on 19 August 2035 at 19:18 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 1 September 2035 at 19:14 in ♌ Leo.
At 17:25 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.744°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.755° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 11 September 2035 at 06:40.
23 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 4 days on 2 September 2035 at 01:59 in ♍ Virgo 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