Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 3 July 2067 at 17:02.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2067 after 16 days on 26 July 2067 at 09:58.
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 4.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1797" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 834 of Meeus index or 1787 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 35 minutes and it is 45 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 1 hour and 51 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 12 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠132.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠159.9°.
11 days since point of perigee on 28 June 2067 at 09:11 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 July 2067 at 14:29 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 398 889 km (247 858 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 361 km (252 501 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 01:59 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 23 July 2067 at 12:01 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 8 July 2067 at 21:14 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.104° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.048° at the point of next southern standstill on 23 July 2067 at 09:15 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 11 July 2067 at 11:16 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