Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 63% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 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 about ∠7° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 8 July 2055 at 22:11.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2055 after 22 days on 7 August 2055 at 10:57.
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 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 686 of Meeus index or 1639 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 32 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 3 hours and 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 57 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 ∠288.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠315.9°.
Moon is at apogee at 07:49 about 14 days since last perigee on 30 June 2055 at 11:09 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next perigee on 27 July 2055 at 04:56 in ♍ Virgo.
This apogee Moon is 404 416 km (251 292 mi) away from Earth. It is 992 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 293 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
4 days after descending node on 10 July 2055 at 18:14 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 25 July 2055 at 00:16 in ♌ Leo.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 8 July 2055 at 11:08 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.424° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.410° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 July 2055 at 22:16 in ♋ Cancer.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 24 July 2055 at 09:48 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