Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 5% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ∠4° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 8 August 2061 at 16:09.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2061 after 17 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 2.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1942" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 27 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°.
1 day since point of perigee on 11 August 2061 at 19:47 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 August 2061 at 20:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 369 139 km (229 372 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 229 km (251 176 mi).
7 days after ascending node on 6 August 2061 at 04:44 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 19 August 2061 at 00:57 in ♎ Libra.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 11 August 2061 at 20:45 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.426° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.503° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 August 2061 at 17:13 in ♐ Sagittarius.
7 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 1 day 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