Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 81% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 20 August 2083 at 13:46.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2083 after 3 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 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1956" and ∠1898".
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1034 of Meeus index or 1987 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 22 minutes and it is 1 hour and 6 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 1 hour and 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 47 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 ∠266.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠299.9°.
1 day since point of perigee on 22 August 2083 at 01:59 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 September 2083 at 22:33 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 366 407 km (227 675 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 236 km (251 181 mi).
10 days after descending node on 12 August 2083 at 13:29 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 25 August 2083 at 13:34 in ♒ Aquarius.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 22 August 2083 at 06:59 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.925° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.867° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 September 2083 at 03:16 in ♊ Gemini.
25 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 3 days on 27 August 2083 at 11:00 in ♓ Pisces 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