Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days 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 ∠5° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 5 August 2100 at 23:02.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2100 after 12 days on 19 August 2100 at 21:29.
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 1.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1919" and ∠1892".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1244 of Meeus index or 2197 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 48 minutes and it is 35 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 56 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 13 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 ∠294.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠320.8°.
9 days since point of apogee on 29 July 2100 at 04:16 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 August 2100 at 16:07 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 373 529 km (232 100 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 679 km (229 087 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 17:51 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 20 August 2100 at 18:39 in ♓ Pisces.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 2 August 2100 at 09:03 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.293° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.334° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 August 2100 at 09:13 in ♐ Sagittarius.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 19 August 2100 at 21:29 in ♒ Aquarius 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