Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% 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 about ∠24° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 30 June 2049 at 04:50.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2049 after 13 days on 15 July 2049 at 02:29.
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 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 612 of Meeus index or 1565 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 17 minutes and it is 6 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2049. 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 33 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 30 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 ∠162.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠185.8°.
14 days since point of perigee on 16 June 2049 at 22:40 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 July 2049 at 01:01 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 405 465 km (251 944 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 409 km (252 531 mi).
3 days after descending node on 27 June 2049 at 17:38 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 12 July 2049 at 03:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 28 June 2049 at 11:03 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.088° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.045° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 July 2049 at 19:01 in ♐ Sagittarius.
16 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 15 July 2049 at 02:29 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