Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 ∠10° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 13 August 2093 at 23:23.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2093 after 15 days on 5 September 2093 at 08:28.
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 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1897".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1157 of Meeus index or 2110 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes and it is 55 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 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 29 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 ∠190.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠215.5°.
1 day since point of apogee on 18 August 2093 at 17:01 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 September 2093 at 09:46 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 404 471 km (251 327 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 104 km (225 001 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 19 August 2093 at 07:10 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 2 September 2093 at 01:36 in ♑ Capricorn.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 18 August 2093 at 03:18 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.668° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.745° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 September 2093 at 03:48 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 22 August 2093 at 03:53 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