Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 92% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 6 July 2077 at 01:22.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2077 after 26 days on 4 August 2077 at 09:46.
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 3.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1951" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 958 of Meeus index or 1911 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 46 minutes and it is 1 hour and 51 minutes 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 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 11 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 ∠80.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠115.1°.
10 days since point of apogee on 27 June 2077 at 13:19 in ♍ Virgo 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 9 July 2077 at 14:18 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 367 394 km (228 288 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 710 km (227 863 mi).
5 days after descending node on 3 July 2077 at 07:19 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 16 July 2077 at 02:42 in ♊ Gemini.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 5 July 2077 at 16:53 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.808° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.808° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 July 2077 at 14:18 in ♋ Cancer.
19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 20 July 2077 at 00:41 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