Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 86% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 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 about ∠14° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 17 August 2048 at 00:32.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2048 after 3 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 3.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1897".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 601 of Meeus index or 1554 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 26 minutes and it is 1 hour and 5 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 18 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 51 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 ∠240.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠276°.
Moon is at perigee at 12:34 about 15 days since last apogee on 4 August 2048 at 17:05 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next apogee on 1 September 2048 at 10:48 in ♊ Gemini.
This perigee Moon is 366 147 km (227 513 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 639 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 4 209 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
1 day after ascending node on 19 August 2048 at 04:55 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 1 September 2048 at 16:14 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 18 August 2048 at 16:40 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.557° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.449° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 September 2048 at 03:54 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day 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 3 days on 23 August 2048 at 18:07 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
