Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 34% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 ∠9° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 11 August 2039 at 19:36.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2039 after 20 days on 2 September 2039 at 19:23.
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 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 489 of Meeus index or 1442 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 56 minutes and it is 1 hour and 24 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 12 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 51 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠226.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠260.1°.
Moon is at apogee at 19:35 about 11 days since last perigee on 1 August 2039 at 22:38 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 29 August 2039 at 03:16 in ♑ Capricorn.
This apogee Moon is 404 503 km (251 347 mi) away from Earth. It is 905 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 206 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
12 days after descending node on 31 July 2039 at 22:26 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 14 August 2039 at 10:57 in ♊ Gemini.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 2 August 2039 at 07:15 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.732° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.786° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 August 2039 at 04:38 in ♋ Cancer.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 19 August 2039 at 20:50 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