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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 7 August 2072 at 04:15.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2072 after 16 days on 28 August 2072 at 15:59.
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 2.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1951" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 897 of Meeus index or 1850 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 25 minutes and it is 21 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2072. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 50 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 ∠333.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠350.4°.
10 days since point of apogee on 1 August 2072 at 19:10 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 14 August 2072 at 14:59 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 367 470 km (228 335 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 834 km (222 348 mi).
10 days after descending node on 1 August 2072 at 17:10 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 August 2072 at 05:10 in ♍ Virgo.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 10 August 2072 at 21:36 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.592° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.564° at the point of next southern standstill on 23 August 2072 at 14:36 in ♐ Sagittarius.
24 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 14 August 2072 at 01:21 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