Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 94% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 6 June 2001 at 01:39.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2001 after 27 days on 5 July 2001 at 15:04.
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 5.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1788" and ∠1890".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 17 of Meeus index or 970 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 12 minutes and it is 1 hour and 25 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 3 hours and 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 37 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 ∠299.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠324.1°.
12 days since point of perigee on 27 May 2001 at 07:07 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 June 2001 at 19:48 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 400 957 km (249 143 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 630 km (251 425 mi).
1 day after descending node on 7 June 2001 at 17:37 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 21 June 2001 at 22:11 in ♊ Gemini.
At 05:02 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.414°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.418° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 22 June 2001 at 07:47.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 21 June 2001 at 11:58 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