Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 15 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 ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 8 July 2093 at 17:14.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2093 after 28 days on 7 August 2093 at 00:23.
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 4.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 15 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1156 of Meeus index or 2109 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 31 minutes and it is 13 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2093. 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 47 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 16 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 ∠167.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠190.3°.
1 day since point of perigee on 8 July 2093 at 18:17 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 July 2093 at 09:07 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 363 600 km (225 931 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 411 km (252 532 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 06:40 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 23 July 2093 at 01:17 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 8 July 2093 at 09:04 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.641° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.635° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 July 2093 at 21:21 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 14 days on 23 July 2093 at 12:36 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