Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 27% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 about ∠18° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 9 June 2091 at 00:22.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2091 after 19 days on 1 July 2091 at 01:54.
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 ∠1890".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1130 of Meeus index or 2083 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 34 minutes and it is 1 hour and 59 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 50 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 13 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠214.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠245.7°.
Moon is at apogee at 19:05 about 11 days since last perigee on 30 May 2091 at 19:30 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 27 June 2091 at 11:38 in ♏ Scorpio.
This apogee Moon is 404 966 km (251 634 mi) away from Earth. It is 442 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 743 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
3 days after descending node on 7 June 2091 at 23:53 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 22 June 2091 at 07:10 in ♍ Virgo.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 3 June 2091 at 09:48 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.930° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.975° at the point of next northern standstill on 17 June 2091 at 21:16 in ♊ Gemini.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 17 June 2091 at 02:41 in ♊ Gemini 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