Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 28% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 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 first ∠3° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 16 August 2069 at 22:03.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2069 after 9 days on 1 September 2069 at 09:06.
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 7.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1898".
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 861 of Meeus index or 1814 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 32 minutes and it is 2 hours and 56 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 48 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 15 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 ∠99.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠133.4°.
Moon is at apogee at 23:32 about 15 days since last perigee on 7 August 2069 at 17:00 in ♈ Aries 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 3 September 2069 at 20:15 in ♈ Aries.
This apogee Moon is 404 552 km (251 377 mi) away from Earth. It is 856 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 157 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 19:50 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 5 September 2069 at 05:58 in ♉ Taurus.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 12 August 2069 at 05:16 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.686° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.563° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 August 2069 at 12:58 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 19:50 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 9 days on 1 September 2069 at 09:06 in ♓ Pisces 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