Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 95% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 24 August 2086 at 17:25.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2086 after 27 days on 23 September 2086 at 01:15.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1899".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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°.
Moon is at perigee at 02:04 about 12 days since last apogee on 13 August 2086 at 21:28 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 10 September 2086 at 10:10 in ♎ Libra.
This perigee Moon is 359 804 km (223 572 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 704 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 552 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
7 days after ascending node on 18 August 2086 at 19:24 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 31 August 2086 at 08:57 in ♊ Gemini.
7 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 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.092° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 September 2086 at 02:04 in ♊ Gemini.
7 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 12 days on 8 September 2086 at 01:17 in ♍ Virgo 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