Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 87% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 passing about ∠7° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 14 August 2087 at 06:54.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2087 after 26 days on 12 September 2087 at 16:43.
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 2.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1946" and ∠1896".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1083 of Meeus index or 2036 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 48 minutes and it is 2 hours and 51 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 1 hour and 56 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 13 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 ∠62.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠95.4°.
10 days since point of apogee on 6 August 2087 at 16:39 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 19 August 2087 at 10:24 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 368 331 km (228 870 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 169 km (229 391 mi).
10 days after ascending node on 7 August 2087 at 01:46 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 August 2087 at 13:00 in ♉ Taurus.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 9 August 2087 at 10:48 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.587° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.473° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 August 2087 at 16:14 in ♊ Gemini.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 28 August 2087 at 05:08 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