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 first ∠2° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 30 July 2070 at 17:17.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2070 after 18 days on 21 August 2070 at 19:54.
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 4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1891".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final 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°.
Moon is at perigee at 20:19 about 15 days since last apogee on 19 July 2070 at 01:07 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 15 August 2070 at 17:17 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This perigee Moon is 364 129 km (226 259 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 621 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 6 227 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
5 days after descending node on 29 July 2070 at 08:38 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 August 2070 at 02:20 in ♎ Libra.
At 00:42 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.683°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.601° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 16 August 2070 at 16:29.
19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 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