Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 ∠23° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 25 July 2059 at 02:24.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2059 after 27 days on 23 August 2059 at 09:42.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 736 of Meeus index or 1689 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 39 minutes and it is 1 hour and 44 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 55 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 8 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 ∠119.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠149.3°.
Moon is at perigee at 20:05 about 12 days since last apogee on 14 July 2059 at 18:59 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 11 August 2059 at 09:12 in ♍ Virgo.
This perigee Moon is 361 174 km (224 423 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 334 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 9 182 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
6 days after descending node on 20 July 2059 at 05:06 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 1 August 2059 at 19:16 in ♉ Taurus.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 23 July 2059 at 10:35 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.645° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.681° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 August 2059 at 06:00 in ♋ Cancer.
20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 8 August 2059 at 07:37 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