Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 84% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 ∠10° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 12 August 2060 at 00:51.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2060 after 25 days on 10 September 2060 at 09:44.
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 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1895".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 749 of Meeus index or 1702 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 7 minutes and it is 2 hours and 50 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 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 32 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 ∠84.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠119.2°.
Moon is at perigee at 06:57 about 11 days since last apogee on 3 August 2060 at 08:10 in ♎ Libra 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 31 August 2060 at 02:25 in ♏ Scorpio.
This perigee Moon is 366 169 km (227 527 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 661 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 4 187 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
11 days after descending node on 3 August 2060 at 14:41 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 16 August 2060 at 23:52 in ♈ Aries.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 8 August 2060 at 17:40 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.761° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.843° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 August 2060 at 13:52 in ♊ Gemini.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 26 August 2060 at 00:56 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