Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 41% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 6 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 20 June 2077 at 12:55.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2077 after 8 days on 6 July 2077 at 01:22.
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 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 958 of Meeus index or 1911 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 46 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 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 11 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 ∠80.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠115.1°.
Moon is at apogee at 13:19 about 13 days since last perigee on 13 June 2077 at 20:17 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 9 July 2077 at 14:18 in ♒ Aquarius.
This apogee Moon is 404 298 km (251 219 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2077. It is 1 110 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 247 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
8 days after ascending node on 18 June 2077 at 21:39 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 3 July 2077 at 07:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 21 June 2077 at 07:13 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.810° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.808° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 July 2077 at 16:53 in ♑ Capricorn.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 6 July 2077 at 01:22 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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