Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 42% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 7 days on 29 July 2068 at 03:55.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2068 after 7 days on 13 August 2068 at 09:51.
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 5.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1792" and ∠1892".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 848 of Meeus index or 1801 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 34 minutes and it is 1 hour and 46 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 50 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 13 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 ∠133.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠160.5°.
3 days since point of apogee on 2 August 2068 at 08:59 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 14 August 2068 at 15:33 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 400 031 km (248 568 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 376 km (223 306 mi).
12 days after descending node on 23 July 2068 at 23:15 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 7 August 2068 at 11:02 in ♏ Scorpio.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 25 July 2068 at 08:58 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.350° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.234° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 August 2068 at 00:30 in ♐ Sagittarius.
25 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 7 days on 13 August 2068 at 09:51 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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