Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 19% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 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 ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 8 August 2061 at 16:09.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2061 after 19 days on 30 August 2061 at 22:18.
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 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 761 of Meeus index or 1714 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 29 minutes and it is 2 hours and 29 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 4 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 54 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 ∠31.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠53.7°.
Moon is at perigee at 19:47 about 15 days since last apogee on 27 July 2061 at 02:41 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 23 August 2061 at 20:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This perigee Moon is 366 956 km (228 016 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 448 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 3 400 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
5 days after ascending node on 6 August 2061 at 04:44 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 19 August 2061 at 00:57 in ♎ Libra.
At 20:45 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.426°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.503° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 25 August 2061 at 17:13.
5 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 15 August 2061 at 09:39 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