Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 86% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 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 ∠5° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 8 August 2057 at 01:30.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2057 after 3 days on 14 August 2057 at 17:21.
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 4.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 712 of Meeus index or 1665 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 23 minutes and it is 1 hour and 17 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 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 24 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 ∠222.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠255.9°.
14 days since point of apogee on 27 July 2057 at 15:44 in ♊ Gemini 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 12 August 2057 at 10:32 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 363 502 km (225 870 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 290 km (225 738 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 07:29 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 24 August 2057 at 19:03 in ♊ Gemini.
At 22:52 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.760°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.822° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 25 August 2057 at 15:28.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 14 August 2057 at 17:21 in ♒ Aquarius 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
