Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 28% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 22 August 2057 at 02:02.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2057 after 19 days on 13 September 2057 at 02:53.
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 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
Moon is at apogee at 07:38 about 11 days since last perigee on 12 August 2057 at 10:32 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 8 September 2057 at 19:57 in ♑ Capricorn.
This apogee Moon is 404 603 km (251 409 mi) away from Earth. It is 805 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 106 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 19:03 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 7 September 2057 at 10:33 in ♑ Capricorn.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 11 August 2057 at 22:52 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.760° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠23.822° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 August 2057 at 15:28 in ♋ Cancer.
At 19:03 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 5 days on 30 August 2057 at 03:54 in ♍ Virgo 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
