Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 92% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 about ∠23° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 8 July 2036 at 11:19.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2036 after 26 days on 7 August 2036 at 02:49.
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 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 451 of Meeus index or 1404 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 7 minutes and it is 11 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2036. 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 5 hours and 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 32 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 ∠338.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠354.1°.
1 day since point of apogee on 10 July 2036 at 16:20 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 July 2036 at 18:38 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 404 944 km (251 621 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 534 km (222 161 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♒ Aquarius at 00:53 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 24 July 2036 at 11:36 in ♌ Leo.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 7 July 2036 at 21:09 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.902° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.877° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 July 2036 at 00:37 in ♋ Cancer.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 23 July 2036 at 10:17 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