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 passing about ∠20° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 18 June 2044 at 17:00.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2044 after 15 days on 10 July 2044 at 06:22.
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 4.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 549 of Meeus index or 1502 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 45 minutes and it is 1 minute shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2044. 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 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 10 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 ∠345.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠0.7°.
12 days since point of apogee on 11 June 2044 at 18:31 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 25 June 2044 at 09:26 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 363 766 km (226 034 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 175 km (221 938 mi).
6 days after ascending node on 17 June 2044 at 14:53 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 30 June 2044 at 02:39 in ♍ Virgo.
At 23:31 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.296°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.308° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 8 July 2044 at 11:13.
6 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 1 day on 25 June 2044 at 10:24 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