Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 21% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 11 August 2056 at 07:48.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2056 after 9 days on 25 August 2056 at 06:00.
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 3.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1895".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 700 of Meeus index or 1653 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 59 minutes and it is 46 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 2 hours and 45 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 24 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 ∠289.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠317.3°.
11 days since point of apogee on 3 August 2056 at 19:11 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 16 August 2056 at 15:34 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 365 776 km (227 283 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 236 km (229 433 mi).
6 days after ascending node on 9 August 2056 at 05:07 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 22 August 2056 at 03:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 8 August 2056 at 11:18 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.019° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.057° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 August 2056 at 11:04 in ♑ Capricorn.
6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 25 August 2056 at 06:00 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