Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day 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 passing about ∠22° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 23 June 2093 at 21:04.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2093 after 13 days on 8 July 2093 at 17:14.
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 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1156 of Meeus index or 2109 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 31 minutes and it is 13 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2093. 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 2 hours and 47 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 16 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 ∠167.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠190.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 06:06 about 14 days since last perigee on 10 June 2093 at 08:55 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 8 July 2093 at 18:17 in ♑ Capricorn.
This apogee Moon is 406 382 km (252 514 mi) away from Earth. It is 974 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 327 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 19:10 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 9 July 2093 at 06:40 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 24 June 2093 at 15:06 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.648° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.641° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 July 2093 at 09:04 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 19:10 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 13 days on 8 July 2093 at 17:14 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
