Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 11% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 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 ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 6 July 2081 at 17:44.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2081 after 11 days on 20 July 2081 at 20:22.
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 4.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1008 of Meeus index or 1961 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 40 minutes and it is 2 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 5 hours and 4 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 5 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 ∠322.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠341.4°.
Moon is at perigee at 01:02 about 11 days since last apogee on 27 June 2081 at 03:39 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 24 July 2081 at 19:37 in ♓ Pisces.
This perigee Moon is 363 443 km (225 833 mi) away from Earth. It is 935 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 6 913 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
11 days after ascending node on 27 June 2081 at 15:47 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 10 July 2081 at 22:38 in ♍ Virgo.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 5 July 2081 at 12:53 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.356° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.389° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 July 2081 at 08:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
11 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 11 days on 20 July 2081 at 20:22 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