Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 11 June 2048 at 12:50.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2048 after 13 days on 26 June 2048 at 02:08.
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 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 599 of Meeus index or 1552 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 14 minutes and it is 1 hour and 19 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 30 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 33 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠186.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠210.3°.
1 day since point of apogee on 10 June 2048 at 20:20 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 June 2048 at 09:51 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 404 408 km (251 287 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 914 km (222 397 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 01:40 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 25 June 2048 at 14:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 11 June 2048 at 06:28 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.745° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.752° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 June 2048 at 23:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 26 June 2048 at 02:08 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.
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