Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 12% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 ∠21° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 18 June 2025 at 19:19.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2025 after 18 days on 10 July 2025 at 20:37.
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 4.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 314 of Meeus index or 1267 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 29 minutes and it is 1 hour and 11 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2025. 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 5 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 54 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 ∠17.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠36.2°.
15 days since point of apogee on 7 June 2025 at 10:42 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 June 2025 at 04:43 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 363 670 km (225 974 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 178 km (225 668 mi).
4 days after ascending node on 18 June 2025 at 09:41 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 1 July 2025 at 03:46 in ♍ Virgo.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 11 June 2025 at 23:54 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.394° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.402° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 June 2025 at 01:43 in ♊ Gemini.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 25 June 2025 at 10:31 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