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Moon phase on 6 July 2013 Saturday is Waning Crescent, 27 days old Moon is in Gemini.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 3% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 30 June 2013 at 04:54.
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1887".
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.
The Moon is 27 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 166 of Meeus index or 1119 from Brown series.
Length of current 166 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes. It is 42 minutes longer than next lunation 167 length.
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 29 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠168.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠191.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
13 days after point of perigee on 23 June 2013 at 11:09 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 7 July 2013 at 00:36 in ♋ Cancer.
Moon is 405 294 km (251 838 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 493 km (252 583 mi).
3 days after its descending node on 3 July 2013 at 04:15 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 17 July 2013 at 14:58 in ♏ Scorpio.
16 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
At 02:09 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠20.170°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-20.097° in its southern standstill point on 20 July 2013 at 03:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
After 1 day on 8 July 2013 at 07:14 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.