Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 11% 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 ∠5° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 2 August 2067 at 01:51.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2067 after 18 days on 24 August 2067 at 16:57.
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 5.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1789" and ∠1892".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 835 of Meeus index or 1788 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 20 minutes and it is 12 minutes shorter 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 2 hours and 36 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 27 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠159.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠183°.
10 days since point of perigee on 26 July 2067 at 17:23 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 August 2067 at 18:29 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 400 565 km (248 900 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 600 km (252 650 mi).
1 day after descending node on 5 August 2067 at 05:26 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 19 August 2067 at 17:42 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 5 August 2067 at 03:19 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.998° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.875° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 August 2067 at 18:29 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 10 August 2067 at 02:36 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