Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 ∠11° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 15 July 2047 at 00:09.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2047 after 15 days on 5 August 2047 at 20:38.
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 3.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1824" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 587 of Meeus index or 1540 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 13 minutes and it is 1 hour and 46 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 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 38 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 ∠240° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠274.9°.
5 days since point of apogee on 16 July 2047 at 03:57 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 July 2047 at 09:01 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 392 934 km (244 158 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 644 km (229 686 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♋ Cancer at 20:52 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 3 August 2047 at 19:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 19 July 2047 at 18:19 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.339° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.317° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 August 2047 at 22:27 in ♐ Sagittarius.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 22 July 2047 at 22:49 in ♋ Cancer 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