Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% 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 first ∠2° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 9 August 2063 at 04:40.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2063 after 28 days on 7 September 2063 at 20:53.
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 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1893".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 786 of Meeus index or 1739 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 22 minutes and it is 42 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2063. 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 5 hours and 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 47 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 ∠343.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠358.9°.
Moon is at apogee at 16:02 about 14 days since last perigee on 26 July 2063 at 17:32 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 24 August 2063 at 02:53 in ♍ Virgo.
This apogee Moon is 406 175 km (252 385 mi) away from Earth. It is 767 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 534 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 15:51 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 24 August 2063 at 06:07 in ♍ Virgo.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 4 August 2063 at 23:40 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.211° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.242° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 August 2063 at 15:04 in ♊ Gemini.
At 15:51 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 13 days on 24 August 2063 at 01:17 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