Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 34% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 6 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 17 July 2042 at 05:52.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2042 after 9 days on 1 August 2042 at 17:33.
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 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 526 of Meeus index or 1479 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 9 minutes and it is 2 hours and 40 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 35 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 34 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 ∠88.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠123.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 20:11 about 14 days since last perigee on 9 July 2042 at 07:47 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 4 August 2042 at 18:09 in ♓ Pisces.
This apogee Moon is 404 290 km (251 214 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 118 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 419 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
12 days after ascending node on 10 July 2042 at 13:42 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 24 July 2042 at 06:34 in ♎ Libra.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 15 July 2042 at 16:02 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.092° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.160° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 July 2042 at 02:39 in ♑ Capricorn.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 1 August 2042 at 17:33 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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