Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 18% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 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 about ∠14° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 22 August 2038 at 23:12.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2038 after 18 days on 13 September 2038 at 12:24.
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 3.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1832" and ∠1899".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 477 of Meeus index or 1430 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 32 minutes and it is 47 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 3 hours and 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 57 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 ∠293.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠319.9°.
5 days since point of apogee on 21 August 2038 at 01:57 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 September 2038 at 22:39 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 391 199 km (243 080 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 106 km (226 245 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 03:40 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 7 September 2038 at 20:51 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 08:58 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.151°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.232° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 8 September 2038 at 03:20.
At 03:40 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 3 days on 30 August 2038 at 10:13 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
