Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 11 August 2037 at 10:41.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2037 after 13 days on 25 August 2037 at 19:09.
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 3.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 465 of Meeus index or 1418 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 44 minutes and it is 25 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2037. 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 shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 9 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 ∠338.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠354.5°.
Moon is at perigee at 17:37 about 12 days since last apogee on 31 July 2037 at 12:33 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 28 August 2037 at 00:28 in ♈ Aries.
This perigee Moon is 359 796 km (223 567 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 712 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 560 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
2 days after ascending node on 10 August 2037 at 01:40 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 22 August 2037 at 23:10 in ♑ Capricorn.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 8 August 2037 at 21:01 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.369° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.390° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 August 2037 at 14:16 in ♑ Capricorn.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 25 August 2037 at 19:09 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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