Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 ∠19° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 19 July 2092 at 00:24.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2092 after 27 days on 17 August 2092 at 09:22.
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 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1907" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1144 of Meeus index or 2097 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 44 minutes and it is 1 hour and 24 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 1 hour longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 3 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 ∠215.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠246.7°.
3 days since point of perigee on 17 July 2092 at 01:42 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 July 2092 at 00:58 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 375 854 km (233 545 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 974 km (251 639 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♒ Aquarius at 04:19 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 3 August 2092 at 13:51 in ♌ Leo.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 17 July 2092 at 20:34 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.092° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.082° at the point of next northern standstill on 31 July 2092 at 20:14 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 3 August 2092 at 09:54 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