Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 38% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 ∠24° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 1 July 2070 at 10:33.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2070 after 20 days on 23 July 2070 at 07:02.
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 2.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1940" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 871 of Meeus index or 1824 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 50 minutes and it is 47 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2070. 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 54 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 15 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 ∠5.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠21.1°.
10 days since point of apogee on 21 June 2070 at 14:15 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 July 2070 at 18:57 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 369 417 km (229 545 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 714 km (223 516 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 07:45 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 14 July 2070 at 23:10 in ♎ Libra.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 23 June 2070 at 00:15 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.860° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.816° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 July 2070 at 14:51 in ♊ Gemini.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 8 July 2070 at 01:14 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