Waxing
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 22% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 28 June 2041 at 11:17.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2041 after 10 days on 13 July 2041 at 19:01.
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 5 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 513 of Meeus index or 1466 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 45 minutes. It is 1 hour and 29 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 2 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠123.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠152.5°.
Moon is at apogee at 06:46. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 17 June 2041 at 11:48 in ♒ Aquarius. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next perigee on 15 July 2041 at 09:14 in ♒ Aquarius.
This apogee Moon is 405 266 km (251 821 mi) away from Earth. It is 142 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 443 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
9 days after ascending node on 24 June 2041 at 08:57 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 8 July 2041 at 20:45 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
5 days since the previous standstill on 28 June 2041 at 10:46 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.286°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.311° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 July 2041 at 18:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 10 days on 13 July 2041 at 19:01 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.