Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 32% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 first ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 31 July 2078 at 21:11.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2078 after 20 days on 23 August 2078 at 08:11.
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 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1891".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 971 of Meeus index or 1924 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 43 minutes and it is 2 hours and 24 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 3 hours and 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 8 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 ∠50.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠80.3°.
1 day since point of perigee on 1 August 2078 at 02:41 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 August 2078 at 20:09 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 364 599 km (226 551 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 178 km (251 145 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 1 August 2078 at 08:13 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 14 August 2078 at 22:47 in ♏ Scorpio.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 22 July 2078 at 23:47 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.072° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.132° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 August 2078 at 00:22 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 7 August 2078 at 19:52 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