Waxing
Crescent ♌ Leo
Moon phase on 14 June 2040 Thursday is Waxing Crescent, 4 days young Moon is in Leo.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 19% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 9 June 2040 at 18:03.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1889".
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2040 after 10 days on 24 June 2040 at 19:19.
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.
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 500 of Meeus index or 1453 from Brown series.
Length of current 500 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 12 minutes. It is longer than next lunation 501 length.
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 28 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 35 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠152°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠175.9°. 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°).
1 day after point of apogee on 12 June 2040 at 14:18 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 25 June 2040 at 09:33 in ♑ Capricorn.
Moon is 403 178 km (250 523 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 10 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 652 km (222 235 mi).
6 days after its ascending node on 8 June 2040 at 10:51 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 22 June 2040 at 18:43 in ♏ Scorpio.
6 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
3 days after previous North standstill on 11 June 2040 at 10:37 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠26.166°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-26.156° in the next southern standstill on 25 June 2040 at 04:10 in ♑ Capricorn.
After 10 days on 24 June 2040 at 19:19 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.