Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 24% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 ∠14° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 1 August 2048 at 14:30.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2048 after 19 days on 23 August 2048 at 18:07.
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 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1892".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 600 of Meeus index or 1553 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 55 minutes and it is 1 hour and 29 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 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 52 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 ∠210.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠240.4°.
Moon is at apogee at 17:05 about 12 days since last perigee on 23 July 2048 at 16:18 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next perigee on 20 August 2048 at 12:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
This apogee Moon is 405 004 km (251 658 mi) away from Earth. It is 404 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 705 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
12 days after ascending node on 22 July 2048 at 23:38 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 5 August 2048 at 13:07 in ♊ Gemini.
At 20:01 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.656°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.557° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 18 August 2048 at 16:40.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 9 August 2048 at 17:59 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