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 about ∠7° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 5 August 2083 at 12:38.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2083 after 19 days on 27 August 2083 at 11:00.
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 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1892".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1033 of Meeus index or 1986 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 51 minutes and it is 1 hour and 29 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 7 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 56 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 ∠232° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠266.6°.
Moon is at apogee at 03:44 about 11 days since last perigee on 26 July 2083 at 06:24 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 22 August 2083 at 01:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This apogee Moon is 404 508 km (251 350 mi) away from Earth. It is 900 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 201 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
9 days after ascending node on 29 July 2083 at 04:55 in ♒ Aquarius 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 12 August 2083 at 13:29 in ♌ Leo.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 26 July 2083 at 00:18 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.954° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠26.955° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 August 2083 at 19:08 in ♊ Gemini.
9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 13 August 2083 at 12:45 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