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 passing about ∠17° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 13 June 2096 at 18:09.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2096 after 16 days on 5 July 2096 at 17:02.
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 3.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1961" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1192 of Meeus index or 2145 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 36 minutes and it is 33 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2096. 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 5 hours and 8 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 1 minute 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 ∠10° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠26.7°.
1 day since point of perigee on 18 June 2096 at 18:27 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 30 June 2096 at 19:58 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 365 598 km (227 172 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 980 km (251 643 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 18 June 2096 at 09:30 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 2 July 2096 at 01:01 in ♐ Sagittarius.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 8 June 2096 at 00:25 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.345° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠26.330° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 June 2096 at 00:14 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 20 June 2096 at 09:12 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