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 passing about ∠18° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 11 August 2058 at 04:00.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2058 after 20 days on 2 September 2058 at 16:51.
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 4.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1804" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 724 of Meeus index or 1677 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 23 minutes and it is 9 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2058. 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 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 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 ∠173.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠196°.
9 days since point of perigee on 4 August 2058 at 05:22 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 August 2058 at 13:13 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 397 307 km (246 875 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 424 km (252 540 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 02:08 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 27 August 2058 at 14:29 in ♐ Sagittarius.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 2 August 2058 at 07:06 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.332° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠25.374° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 August 2058 at 09:06 in ♋ Cancer.
At 02:08 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 19 August 2058 at 07:03 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