Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 30 July 2076 at 22:05.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2076 after 13 days on 14 August 2076 at 17:11.
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 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1891".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 947 of Meeus index or 1900 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 38 minutes and it is 6 minutes shorter 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 54 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 9 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠170.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠193.2°.
Moon is at apogee at 00:12 about 14 days since last perigee on 17 July 2076 at 05:58 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 14 August 2076 at 15:29 in ♒ Aquarius.
This apogee Moon is 406 563 km (252 627 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2076. It is 1 155 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 146 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
5 days after ascending node on 27 July 2076 at 08:20 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 10 August 2076 at 19:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 28 July 2076 at 15:14 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.331° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.400° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 August 2076 at 22:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
5 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 14 August 2076 at 17:11 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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