Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 18% 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 passing about ∠8° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 17 August 2063 at 07:01.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2063 after 18 days on 7 September 2063 at 20:53.
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 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1931" and ∠1897".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
9 days since point of apogee on 10 August 2063 at 16:02 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 24 August 2063 at 02:53 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 371 153 km (230 624 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 256 km (221 989 mi).
9 days after ascending node on 10 August 2063 at 15:51 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 24 August 2063 at 06:07 in ♍ Virgo.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 19 August 2063 at 15:04 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.242° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.251° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 September 2063 at 05:30 in ♐ Sagittarius.
9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 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