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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 1% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 1% and getting smaller. The 28 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 19 June 2014 at 18:39.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon in ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1800"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1800" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2014 after 15 days on 12 July 2014 at 11:25.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 27 June 2014 at 08:09
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 5 July 2014 at 11:59
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 12 July 2014 at 11:25
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 19 July 2014 at 02:08
Moderate tide
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.
Lunation 178 / 1131
The Moon is 28 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 178 of Meeus index or 1131 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.56 days
Length of current 178 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 28 minutes. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter than next lunation 179 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 44 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 19 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠112.5°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠112.5°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠144.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of perigee on 15 June 2014 at 03:34 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 4 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 30 June 2014 at 19:09 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 398 181 km
Moon is 398 181 km (247 418 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 4 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 932 km (252 234 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after its descending node on 21 June 2014 at 20:30 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 6 July 2014 at 09:50 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
17 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 08:34 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠19.035°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-18.982° in its southern standstill point on 10 July 2014 at 17:29 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 1 day
After 1 day on 27 June 2014 at 08:09 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.