Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 61% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 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 ∠16° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 7 days on 13 July 2098 at 10:35.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2098 after 22 days on 12 August 2098 at 01:44.
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 3.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1823" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1218 of Meeus index or 2171 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 45 minutes and it is 17 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2098. 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 5 hours and 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 10 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 ∠339.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠355.1°.
5 days since point of apogee on 15 July 2098 at 11:43 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 July 2098 at 15:50 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 393 237 km (244 346 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 310 km (222 022 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 16:26 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 2 August 2098 at 04:55 in ♎ Libra.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 11 July 2098 at 22:01 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.167° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.239° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 July 2098 at 04:44 in ♋ Cancer.
At 16:26 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 7 days on 28 July 2098 at 08:51 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