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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 23 June 2087 at 17:33.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2087 after 16 days on 15 July 2087 at 19:54.
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 3.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1946" 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 1081 of Meeus index or 2034 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 52 minutes and it is 57 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 4 hours and 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 17 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 ∠19° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠37.8°.
1 day since point of perigee on 28 June 2087 at 01:08 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 July 2087 at 22:18 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 368 344 km (228 878 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 488 km (251 337 mi).
2 days after descending node on 27 June 2087 at 08:36 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 July 2087 at 23:01 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 00:49 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠20.796°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-20.759° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 13 July 2087 at 01:52.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 30 June 2087 at 09:31 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
