Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 11% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 ∠15° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 11 August 2039 at 19:36.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2039 after 17 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 6.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1781" and ∠1895".
The Moon is 26 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°.
2 days since point of apogee on 13 August 2039 at 19:35 in ♊ Gemini 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 29 August 2039 at 03:16 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 402 433 km (250 060 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 737 km (229 123 mi).
2 days after ascending node on 14 August 2039 at 10:57 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 28 August 2039 at 01:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 04:38 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠24.786°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-24.880° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 29 August 2039 at 14:11.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 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