Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ∠11° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 20 July 2071 at 08:52.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2071 after 16 days on 10 August 2071 at 23:39.
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 4.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 884 of Meeus index or 1837 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 36 minutes and it is 44 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2071. 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 6 hours and 8 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 minute 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 ∠350.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠5.3°.
12 days since point of apogee on 12 July 2071 at 16:49 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 July 2071 at 17:22 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 363 862 km (226 093 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 370 km (222 059 mi).
7 days after descending node on 18 July 2071 at 04:18 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 30 July 2071 at 18:19 in ♍ Virgo.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 24 July 2071 at 19:33 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.332° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.284° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 August 2071 at 22:51 in ♐ Sagittarius.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 27 July 2071 at 00:56 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