Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 11% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 11 July 2069 at 14:59.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2069 after 18 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 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1946" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 26 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°.
1 day since point of perigee on 13 July 2069 at 15:08 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 July 2069 at 04:43 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 368 356 km (228 886 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 051 km (251 066 mi).
2 days after descending node on 13 July 2069 at 03:06 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 26 July 2069 at 17:40 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 22:08 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠19.867°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-19.783° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 30 July 2069 at 03:42.
15 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 2 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
