Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 31 July 2044 at 17:40.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2044 after 1 day on 8 August 2044 at 21:14.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1892".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 551 of Meeus index or 1504 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 56 minutes and it is 2 hours and 1 minute 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 4 hours and 49 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 21 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 ∠16° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠34°.
2 days since point of apogee on 5 August 2044 at 05:22 in ♑ Capricorn 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 20 August 2044 at 23:01 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 403 745 km (250 876 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 698 km (225 370 mi).
11 days after descending node on 27 July 2044 at 09:02 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 August 2044 at 20:20 in ♓ Pisces.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 4 August 2044 at 16:59 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.410° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.458° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 August 2044 at 17:17 in ♊ Gemini.
23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 8 August 2044 at 21:14 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