Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 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 about ∠5° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 5 August 2081 at 01:24.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2081 after 12 days on 19 August 2081 at 11:15.
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 4.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1892".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1009 of Meeus index or 1962 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 38 minutes and it is 44 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2081. 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 5 hours and 6 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 3 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 ∠341.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠357.1°.
Moon is at perigee at 03:56 about 12 days since last apogee on 24 July 2081 at 19:37 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 21 August 2081 at 05:57 in ♓ Pisces.
This perigee Moon is 359 262 km (223 235 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 246 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 094 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
12 days after ascending node on 24 July 2081 at 18:52 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 7 August 2081 at 04:49 in ♍ Virgo.
4 days since the last northern standstill on 1 August 2081 at 22:18 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.454° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.500° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 August 2081 at 14:13 in ♐ Sagittarius.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 19 August 2081 at 11:15 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