Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 18% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 25 July 2082 at 15:54.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2082 after 10 days on 8 August 2082 at 14:33.
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 3.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1890".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1021 of Meeus index or 1974 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 24 minutes and it is 38 minutes longer 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 3 hours and 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 49 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 ∠298.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠323.3°.
Moon is at perigee at 23:55 about 12 days since last apogee on 17 July 2082 at 16:24 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 14 August 2082 at 10:53 in ♈ Aries.
This perigee Moon is 368 196 km (228 786 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 688 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 2 160 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
2 days after descending node on 27 July 2082 at 09:04 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 9 August 2082 at 10:22 in ♒ Aquarius.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 22 July 2082 at 18:54 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.898° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.934° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 August 2082 at 16:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 8 August 2082 at 14:33 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