Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 7 days on 27 June 2073 at 11:12.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2073 after 14 days on 19 July 2073 at 05:04.
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 2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1851" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 908 of Meeus index or 1861 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 25 minutes and it is 1 hour and 37 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 19 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 50 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 ∠250° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠284.5°.
6 days since point of apogee on 28 June 2073 at 01:09 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 11 July 2073 at 07:01 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 387 340 km (240 682 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 523 km (229 611 mi).
10 days after descending node on 23 June 2073 at 19:45 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 8 July 2073 at 01:28 in ♌ Leo.
At 22:14 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠19.610°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-19.591° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 17 July 2073 at 20:15.
23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 5 July 2073 at 07:16 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