Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 ∠24° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 22 June 2068 at 12:25.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2068 after 16 days on 15 July 2068 at 02:07.
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 1.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1863" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 846 of Meeus index or 1799 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 8 minutes and it is 1 hour and 35 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 1 hour and 36 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 33 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 ∠66° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠99.8°.
8 days since point of perigee on 20 June 2068 at 10:58 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 July 2068 at 16:27 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 384 721 km (239 055 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 637 km (251 430 mi).
1 day after descending node on 26 June 2068 at 20:13 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 July 2068 at 06:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 02:09 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠21.448°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-21.401° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 12 July 2068 at 14:18.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 29 June 2068 at 15:11 in ♋ Cancer 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
