Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ∠19° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 29 August 2040 at 11:16.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2040 after 16 days on 20 September 2040 at 17:43.
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% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1903".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 502 of Meeus index or 1455 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 47 minutes and it is 35 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 2 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours 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 ∠199° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠226.5°.
2 days since point of apogee on 2 September 2040 at 10:15 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 September 2040 at 06:43 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 403 985 km (251 025 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 882 km (226 106 mi).
6 days after ascending node on 28 August 2040 at 19:18 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 12 September 2040 at 06:11 in ♏ Scorpio.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 1 September 2040 at 03:14 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.397° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.529° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 September 2040 at 06:36 in ♑ Capricorn.
6 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 2 days on 6 September 2040 at 15:13 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