Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% 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 about ∠8° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 11 June 2061 at 02:42.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2061 after 16 days on 2 July 2061 at 20:52.
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 4.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 759 of Meeus index or 1712 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 1 minute and it is 7 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2061. 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 5 hours and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 25 minutes 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 ∠358.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠13.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 22:16 about 14 days since last apogee on 2 June 2061 at 04:48 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 29 June 2061 at 12:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This perigee Moon is 358 371 km (222 681 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 137 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 985 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
3 days after ascending node on 13 June 2061 at 01:57 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 25 June 2061 at 18:12 in ♎ Libra.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 4 June 2061 at 22:36 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.272° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠28.260° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 June 2061 at 03:42 in ♋ Cancer.
3 days 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 1 day on 17 June 2061 at 18:03 in ♊ Gemini 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