Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 7% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ∠14° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 1 August 2097 at 01:24.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2097 after 17 days on 22 August 2097 at 23:52.
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 4.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1892".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1206 of Meeus index or 2159 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 2 minutes and it is 1 hour and 32 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 5 hours and 42 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 27 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 ∠10° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠26.5°.
14 days since point of apogee on 21 July 2097 at 14:19 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 6 August 2097 at 01:35 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 363 571 km (225 913 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 915 km (224 262 mi).
4 days after ascending node on 31 July 2097 at 21:54 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 August 2097 at 12:51 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 00:09 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠27.559°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-27.633° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 18 August 2097 at 11:45.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 7 August 2097 at 16:00 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