Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% 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 first ∠0° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 2 July 2048 at 23:58.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2048 after 15 days on 25 July 2048 at 09:34.
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 ∠1770" 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 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 8 July 2048 at 03:10 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 July 2048 at 16:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 404 968 km (251 635 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 240 km (224 464 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 07:58 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 22 July 2048 at 23:38 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 8 July 2048 at 12:46 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.746° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.710° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 July 2048 at 09:07 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 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 1 day on 11 July 2048 at 04:04 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