Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 3 August 2050 at 02:20.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2050 after 27 days on 1 September 2050 at 09:30.
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 4.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1891".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 625 of Meeus index or 1578 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 31 minutes and it is 1 hour and 31 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 1 hour and 47 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 16 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 ∠137° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠163.4°.
Moon is at perigee at 05:06 about 12 days since last apogee on 22 July 2050 at 20:27 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 19 August 2050 at 07:00 in ♍ Virgo.
This perigee Moon is 358 975 km (223 057 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 533 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 381 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
7 days after ascending node on 28 July 2050 at 02:39 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 9 August 2050 at 15:07 in ♉ Taurus.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 30 July 2050 at 14:00 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.346° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.265° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 August 2050 at 05:19 in ♊ Gemini.
7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 17 August 2050 at 11:47 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