Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 29 June 2081 at 09:00.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2081 after 15 days on 20 July 2081 at 20:22.
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 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1902" 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 1007 of Meeus index or 1960 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 43 minutes and it is 1 hour and 3 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 4 hours and 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 8 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 ∠298.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠322.9°.
8 days since point of apogee on 27 June 2081 at 03:39 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 9 July 2081 at 01:02 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 376 847 km (234 162 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 443 km (225 833 mi).
7 days after ascending node on 27 June 2081 at 15:47 in ♓ Pisces 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 10 July 2081 at 22:38 in ♍ Virgo.
At 12:53 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.356°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.389° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 18 July 2081 at 08:57.
7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 6 July 2081 at 17:44 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