Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 33% 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 ∠22° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 22 July 2087 at 22:43.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2087 after 20 days on 14 August 2087 at 06:54.
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 4.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1082 of Meeus index or 2035 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 49 minutes and it is 1 hour and 59 minutes 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 3 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 14 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 ∠37.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠62.7°.
14 days since point of apogee on 9 July 2087 at 22:18 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 July 2087 at 08:02 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 363 422 km (225 820 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 392 km (228 908 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♉ Taurus at 12:18 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 7 August 2087 at 01:46 in ♏ Scorpio.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 13 July 2087 at 01:52 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.759° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠20.684° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 July 2087 at 09:39 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 29 July 2087 at 18:20 in ♋ Cancer 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