Waxing Crescent on 8 August 2016 Monday
Moon phase on 8 August 2016 Monday is Waxing Crescent, 5 days young Moon is in Libra.
Moon phase for 8 August 2016 Monday 12:00 UTC
Lunar calendar 2016 | August 2016
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on 8 August 2016, Monday . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 29% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Quarter ♏ Scorpio
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 2 August 2016 at 20:45.
Moon in ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Sturgeon Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2016 after 9 days on 18 August 2016 at 09:27.
First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ after 2 days on 10 August 2016 at 18:21
Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ after 9 days on 18 August 2016 at 09:27
Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ after 16 days on 25 August 2016 at 03:41
New Moon in Virgo ♍ after 23 days on 1 September 2016 at 09:03
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 19 minutes. It is 2 hours and 49 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 25 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 44 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on 8 August 2016 Monday 12:00 UTC
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠77.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠112.8°.
12 days after point of perigee on 27 July 2016 at 11:25 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 August 2016 at 00:05 in ♏ Scorpio.
3 days after ascending node on 5 August 2016 at 07:48 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 19 August 2016 at 14:14 in ♓ Pisces.
3 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 31 July 2016 at 04:53 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.529°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.481° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 August 2016 at 13:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 9 days on 18 August 2016 at 09:27 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.