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 first ∠4° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 30 July 2040 at 21:06.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2040 after 17 days on 22 August 2040 at 09:09.
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 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1892".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 501 of Meeus index or 1454 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 12 minutes and it is 25 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2040. 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 2 hours and 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 35 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 ∠175.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠199°.
11 days since point of perigee on 23 July 2040 at 19:15 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 August 2040 at 23:43 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 404 128 km (251 113 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 353 km (252 496 mi).
2 days after ascending node on 1 August 2040 at 17:44 in ♉ Taurus 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 16 August 2040 at 05:30 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 21:26 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.211°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.313° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 18 August 2040 at 23:35.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 8 August 2040 at 00:26 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
