Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ∠25° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 5 August 2083 at 12:38.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2083 after 15 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 4.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1804" and ∠1893".
The Moon is 27 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°.
4 days since point of apogee on 7 August 2083 at 03:44 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 22 August 2083 at 01:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 397 219 km (246 820 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 256 km (229 445 mi).
13 days after ascending node on 29 July 2083 at 04:55 in ♒ Aquarius 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 12 August 2083 at 13:29 in ♌ Leo.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 8 August 2083 at 19:08 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.955° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.925° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 August 2083 at 06:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 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 2 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