Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 88% 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 ∠17° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 26 August 2064 at 21:35.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2064 after 26 days on 25 September 2064 at 13:38.
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 7.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1901".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 799 of Meeus index or 1752 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 22 minutes and it is 1 minute shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2064. 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 4 hours and 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 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 ∠325.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠344°.
Moon is at apogee at 14:46 about 15 days since last perigee on 14 August 2064 at 20:26 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 12 September 2064 at 00:51 in ♎ Libra.
This apogee Moon is 405 759 km (252 127 mi) away from Earth. It is 351 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 950 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
5 days after ascending node on 25 August 2064 at 09:06 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 8 September 2064 at 19:25 in ♌ Leo.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 21 August 2064 at 06:25 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.397° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.341° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 September 2064 at 22:06 in ♊ Gemini.
5 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 11 days on 11 September 2064 at 02:11 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