Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ∠25° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 30 June 2013 at 04:54.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2013 after 16 days on 22 July 2013 at 18:15.
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 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 166 of Meeus index or 1119 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes and it is 42 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 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 29 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠168.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠191.6°.
13 days since point of perigee on 23 June 2013 at 11:09 in ♑ Capricorn 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 7 July 2013 at 00:36 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 405 294 km (251 838 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 493 km (252 583 mi).
3 days after descending node on 3 July 2013 at 04:15 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 July 2013 at 14:58 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 02:09 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠20.170°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-20.097° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 20 July 2013 at 03:12.
16 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 8 July 2013 at 07:14 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