Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 93% 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 ∠5° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 25 August 2037 at 19:09.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2037 after 26 days on 24 September 2037 at 11:32.
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 7.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1900".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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 apogee at 00:28 about 15 days since last perigee on 12 August 2037 at 17:37 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 10 September 2037 at 02:13 in ♍ Virgo.
This apogee Moon is 406 214 km (252 410 mi) away from Earth. It is 806 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 495 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
5 days after descending node on 22 August 2037 at 23:10 in ♑ Capricorn 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 6 September 2037 at 10:34 in ♋ Cancer.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 21 August 2037 at 14:16 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.390° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.473° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 September 2037 at 06:20 in ♋ Cancer.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 9 September 2037 at 18:25 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