Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 first ∠2° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 10 July 2061 at 10:23.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2061 after 16 days on 1 August 2061 at 10:11.
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 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 760 of Meeus index or 1713 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 7 minutes and it is 1 hour and 22 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 5 hours and 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 32 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 ∠13.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠31.2°.
Moon is at perigee at 03:23 about 15 days since last apogee on 29 June 2061 at 12:19 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next apogee on 27 July 2061 at 02:41 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This perigee Moon is 362 013 km (224 944 mi) away from Earth. It is 495 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 8 343 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
5 days after ascending node on 10 July 2061 at 03:50 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 22 July 2061 at 20:17 in ♎ Libra.
At 13:04 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.294°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.342° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 29 July 2061 at 09:52.
5 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 July 2061 at 01:10 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