Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 93% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 17 August 2086 at 14:14.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2086 after 2 days on 24 August 2086 at 17:25.
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 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1908" and ∠1898".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1071 of Meeus index or 2024 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 39 minutes and it is 2 hours shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 55 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 8 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 ∠129.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠157.5°.
8 days since point of apogee on 13 August 2086 at 21:28 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 August 2086 at 02:04 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 375 586 km (233 378 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 804 km (223 572 mi).
3 days after ascending node on 18 August 2086 at 19:24 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 31 August 2086 at 08:57 in ♊ Gemini.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 19 August 2086 at 11:08 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.198° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.092° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 September 2086 at 02:04 in ♊ Gemini.
3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 24 August 2086 at 17:25 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