Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 9% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 19 July 2052 at 09:37.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2052 after 18 days on 10 August 2052 at 12:52.
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 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 649 of Meeus index or 1602 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 41 minutes and it is 1 hour and 55 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 5 hours and 3 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 6 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 ∠23.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠43°.
Moon is at perigee at 08:05 about 15 days since last apogee on 7 July 2052 at 12:41 in ♏ Scorpio 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 4 August 2052 at 05:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This perigee Moon is 364 746 km (226 643 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 238 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 5 610 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
5 days after descending node on 17 July 2052 at 23:36 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 30 July 2052 at 18:07 in ♎ Libra.
At 14:42 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.413°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.346° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 6 August 2052 at 12:41.
19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 26 July 2052 at 01:31 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