Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 8% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 ∠6° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 25 July 2065 at 06:22.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2065 after 16 days on 16 August 2065 at 03:45.
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 5.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1797" and ∠1890".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 810 of Meeus index or 1763 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 30 minutes and it is 1 hour and 37 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 55 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 ∠235.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠270.8°.
3 days since point of apogee on 26 July 2065 at 15:50 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 August 2065 at 06:04 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 398 894 km (247 861 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 504 km (229 599 mi).
12 days after ascending node on 17 July 2065 at 20:19 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 1 August 2065 at 05:11 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 29 July 2065 at 06:45 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.196° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.171° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 August 2065 at 14:30 in ♐ Sagittarius.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 2 August 2065 at 05:46 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