Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 6% 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.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 11 July 2050 at 09:46.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2050 after 17 days on 3 August 2050 at 02:20.
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 2.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1839" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 624 of Meeus index or 1577 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 55 minutes and it is 1 hour and 36 minutes 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 11 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 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 ∠104.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠137°.
9 days since point of perigee on 7 July 2050 at 02:25 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 July 2050 at 20:27 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 389 730 km (242 167 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 717 km (252 101 mi).
2 days after descending node on 13 July 2050 at 14:19 in ♉ Taurus 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 28 July 2050 at 02:39 in ♏ Scorpio.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 15 July 2050 at 23:05 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.446° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 14 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.346° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 July 2050 at 14:00 in ♐ Sagittarius.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 18 July 2050 at 21:17 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