Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 6% 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 ∠12° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 27 July 2073 at 04:29.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2073 after 16 days on 17 August 2073 at 17:45.
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 1.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1861" and ∠1891".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 909 of Meeus index or 1862 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 48 minutes and it is 59 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 2 hours and 56 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 13 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 ∠284.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠313.1°.
6 days since point of apogee on 25 July 2073 at 19:45 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 August 2073 at 17:22 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 385 243 km (239 379 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 543 km (227 138 mi).
11 days after descending node on 21 July 2073 at 02:27 in ♒ Aquarius 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 4 August 2073 at 08:57 in ♌ Leo.
At 07:46 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠19.570°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-19.556° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 14 August 2073 at 02:57.
24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 3 August 2073 at 17:04 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