Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 28 June 2035 at 18:43.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2035 after 15 days on 20 July 2035 at 10:37.
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 4.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" 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 438 of Meeus index or 1391 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 39 minutes and it is 33 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2035. 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 6 hours and 5 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 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 ∠354.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠9.1°.
Moon is at perigee at 21:00 about 14 days since last apogee on 20 June 2035 at 12:30 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 17 July 2035 at 17:31 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This perigee Moon is 357 717 km (222 275 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 791 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 639 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
8 days after descending node on 26 June 2035 at 11:14 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 9 July 2035 at 01:03 in ♍ Virgo.
At 22:29 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.843°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.832° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 18 July 2035 at 15:35.
22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 5 July 2035 at 09:59 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