Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 8% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 days 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 passing first ∠1° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 18 August 2077 at 14:17.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2077 after 12 days on 2 September 2077 at 17:23.
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 7.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1897".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 960 of Meeus index or 1913 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 35 minutes and it is 1 hour and 39 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 2 hours and 51 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 12 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 ∠146° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠171°.
Moon is at apogee at 22:11 about 15 days since last perigee on 6 August 2077 at 07:02 in ♓ Pisces 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 3 September 2077 at 12:31 in ♓ Pisces.
This apogee Moon is 406 040 km (252 302 mi) away from Earth. It is 632 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 669 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
9 days after ascending node on 12 August 2077 at 04:14 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 August 2077 at 16:24 in ♏ Scorpio.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 14 August 2077 at 19:42 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.916° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.035° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 August 2077 at 11:23 in ♑ Capricorn.
9 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 12 days on 2 September 2077 at 17:23 in ♓ Pisces 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
