Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 80% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 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 ∠8° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 21 August 2053 at 04:27.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2053 after 4 days on 29 August 2053 at 07:53.
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 7.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1898".
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 663 of Meeus index or 1616 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 55 minutes and it is 2 hours and 23 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 3 hours and 49 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 20 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 ∠23.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠43.5°.
Moon is at apogee at 18:27 about 12 days since last perigee on 12 August 2053 at 14:58 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next perigee on 9 September 2053 at 15:22 in ♌ Leo.
This apogee Moon is 405 238 km (251 803 mi) away from Earth. It is 170 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 471 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
8 days after ascending node on 15 August 2053 at 17:54 in ♍ Virgo 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 30 August 2053 at 03:39 in ♓ Pisces.
At 02:41 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-18.341°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠18.322° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 7 September 2053 at 03:16.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 29 August 2053 at 07:53 in ♓ Pisces 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