Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 8% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 ∠18° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 7 August 2091 at 10:44.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2091 after 16 days on 29 August 2091 at 00:39.
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 2.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1848" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1132 of Meeus index or 2085 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 6 minutes and it is 53 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 2 hours and 38 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 31 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 ∠280.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠310.2°.
6 days since point of apogee on 6 August 2091 at 07:42 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 August 2091 at 06:08 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 387 791 km (240 962 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 147 km (227 513 mi).
11 days after descending node on 1 August 2091 at 10:40 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 August 2091 at 17:38 in ♌ Leo.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 11 August 2091 at 15:21 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.890° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.873° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 August 2091 at 11:30 in ♑ Capricorn.
24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 15 August 2091 at 00:22 in ♌ Leo 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