Waxing
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase on 15 June 2059 Sunday is Waxing Crescent, 5 days young Moon is in Leo.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 26% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 10 June 2059 at 05:57.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1889".
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2059 after 10 days on 25 June 2059 at 18:12.
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 5 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 735 of Meeus index or 1688 from Brown series.
Length of current 735 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 2 minutes. It is 1 hour and 37 minutes shorter than next lunation 736 length.
Length of current synodic month is 43 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 27 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠84.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠119.3°. 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°).
12 days after point of perigee on 2 June 2059 at 22:39 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 17 June 2059 at 01:27 in ♍ Virgo.
Moon is 404 400 km (251 283 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 358 km (251 256 mi).
6 days after its ascending node on 8 June 2059 at 12:58 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 22 June 2059 at 23:01 in ♏ Scorpio.
6 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
3 days after previous North standstill on 11 June 2059 at 17:24 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠26.629°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-26.615° in the next southern standstill on 26 June 2059 at 01:24 in ♑ Capricorn.
After 10 days on 25 June 2059 at 18:12 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.