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Moon phase on 3 June 2052 Monday is Waxing Crescent, 6 days young Moon is in Virgo.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 42% and growing larger. The 6 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 28 May 2052 at 10:50.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1857" and ∠1891".
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2052 after 8 days on 12 June 2052 at 10:27.
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 6 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 648 of Meeus index or 1601 from Brown series.
Length of current 648 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 1 minute. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2052. It is 41 minutes shorter than next lunation 649 length.
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 44 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 25 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠7.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠23.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
6 days after point of perigee on 28 May 2052 at 00:39 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 10 June 2052 at 00:46 in ♏ Scorpio.
Moon is 385 985 km (239 840 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 066 km (252 318 mi).
9 days after its descending node on 24 May 2052 at 19:07 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 6 June 2052 at 13:15 in ♎ Libra.
24 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
4 days after previous North standstill on 29 May 2052 at 16:35 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.475°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.514° in the next southern standstill on 12 June 2052 at 20:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
After 8 days on 12 June 2052 at 10:27 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.