Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 16 August 2099 at 08:54.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2099 after 13 days on 30 August 2099 at 17:56.
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 3.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1896".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1232 of Meeus index or 2185 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 56 minutes and it is 46 minutes shorter 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 4 hours and 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 21 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 ∠355.4°.
Moon is at perigee at 14:24 about 12 days since last apogee on 5 August 2099 at 08:15 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 1 September 2099 at 19:45 in ♓ Pisces.
This perigee Moon is 359 644 km (223 472 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 864 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 712 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
12 days after ascending node on 5 August 2099 at 03:00 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 18 August 2099 at 13:42 in ♍ Virgo.
4 days since the last northern standstill on 12 August 2099 at 14:22 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.579° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.632° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 August 2099 at 05:13 in ♐ Sagittarius.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 30 August 2099 at 17:56 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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