Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 10% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 ∠11° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 3 June 2097 at 06:11.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2097 after 17 days on 24 June 2097 at 19:03.
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 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1942" and ∠1890".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1204 of Meeus index or 2157 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 34 minutes and it is 50 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 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 59 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 ∠339.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠355.1°.
10 days since point of apogee on 28 May 2097 at 05:57 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 June 2097 at 09:12 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 369 172 km (229 393 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 390 km (222 072 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 13:23 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 20 June 2097 at 09:05 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 28 May 2097 at 19:06 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.488° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.467° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 June 2097 at 04:55 in ♋ Cancer.
At 13:23 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 2 days on 10 June 2097 at 02:13 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