Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 95% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 23 July 2070 at 07:02.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2070 after 27 days on 21 August 2070 at 19:54.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1841" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 872 of Meeus index or 1825 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 37 minutes and it is 2 hours 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 5 hours and 7 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 2 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 ∠21.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠40.1°.
6 days since point of apogee on 19 July 2070 at 01:07 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 3 August 2070 at 20:19 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 389 345 km (241 928 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 129 km (226 259 mi).
10 days after ascending node on 14 July 2070 at 23:10 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 July 2070 at 08:38 in ♈ Aries.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 20 July 2070 at 08:09 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.774° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.683° at the point of next northern standstill on 3 August 2070 at 00:42 in ♋ Cancer.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 6 August 2070 at 08:51 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