Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 29% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 ∠16° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 11 July 2069 at 14:59.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2069 after 20 days on 2 August 2069 at 23:44.
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 4.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 859 of Meeus index or 1812 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 59 minutes and it is 1 hour and 51 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 3 hours and 45 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 24 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 ∠40.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠66.4°.
Moon is at perigee at 15:08 about 15 days since last apogee on 28 June 2069 at 10:15 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 26 July 2069 at 04:43 in ♏ Scorpio.
This perigee Moon is 368 840 km (229 187 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2069. It is 6 332 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 1 516 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♉ Taurus at 03:06 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 26 July 2069 at 17:40 in ♏ Scorpio.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 2 July 2069 at 18:22 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.920° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.867° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 July 2069 at 22:08 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 18 July 2069 at 11:13 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