Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 5% 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.
Slide horizontally to discover the moon phase on nearby dates.
Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 1 August 2048 at 14:30.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2048 after 16 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 6.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1781" and ∠1892".
The Moon is 27 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°.
2 days since point of apogee on 4 August 2048 at 17:05 in ♊ Gemini 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 2048 at 12:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 402 422 km (250 053 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 147 km (227 513 mi).
1 day after descending node on 5 August 2048 at 13:07 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 19 August 2048 at 04:55 in ♐ Sagittarius.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 4 August 2048 at 20:01 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.656° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.557° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 August 2048 at 16:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 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