Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 41% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 6 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 16 June 2015 at 14:05.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2015 after 8 days on 2 July 2015 at 02:20.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 191 of Meeus index or 1144 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 19 minutes and it is 2 hours and 10 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 25 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 44 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 ∠78.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠112.8°.
Moon is at apogee at 17:01 about 13 days since last perigee on 10 June 2015 at 04:39 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 5 July 2015 at 18:54 in ♒ Aquarius.
This apogee Moon is 404 134 km (251 117 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2015. It is 1 274 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 83 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
12 days after descending node on 10 June 2015 at 23:30 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 24 June 2015 at 17:23 in ♍ Virgo.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 16 June 2015 at 19:47 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.457° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.445° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 July 2015 at 06:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 2 July 2015 at 02:20 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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