Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 ∠18° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 21 June 2022 at 03:11.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2022 after 16 days on 13 July 2022 at 18:37.
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 6.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 277 of Meeus index or 1230 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 22 minutes and it is 19 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2022. 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 2 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 25 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 ∠155.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠178.8°.
12 days since point of perigee on 14 June 2022 at 23:21 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 29 June 2022 at 06:08 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 404 145 km (251 124 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 581 km (252 638 mi).
2 days after ascending node on 25 June 2022 at 07:10 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 9 July 2022 at 17:28 in ♏ Scorpio.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 15 June 2022 at 10:59 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.924° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠26.900° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 June 2022 at 04:06 in ♋ Cancer.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 29 June 2022 at 02:52 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