Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 17% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 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 about ∠15° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 21 June 2060 at 08:44.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2060 after 19 days on 13 July 2060 at 15:08.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 747 of Meeus index or 1700 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 35 minutes and it is 1 hour and 17 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠31.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠54.1°.
Moon is at perigee at 12:41 about 15 days since last apogee on 8 June 2060 at 19:26 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 6 July 2060 at 13:25 in ♎ Libra.
This perigee Moon is 366 989 km (228 036 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 481 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 3 367 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
1 day after ascending node on 23 June 2060 at 21:23 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 7 July 2060 at 12:29 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 15 June 2060 at 02:38 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.634° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.624° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 June 2060 at 00:46 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 28 June 2060 at 02:58 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