Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 31% 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 ∠6° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 2 July 2097 at 17:05.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2097 after 19 days on 24 July 2097 at 09:54.
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 2.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1930" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1205 of Meeus index or 2158 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 44 minutes and it is 18 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2097. 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 6 hours shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 9 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 ∠355.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠10°.
10 days since point of apogee on 24 June 2097 at 09:04 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 July 2097 at 18:43 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 371 374 km (230 761 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 840 km (222 351 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 19:44 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 17 July 2097 at 10:55 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 25 June 2097 at 00:31 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.434° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.459° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 July 2097 at 15:01 in ♊ Gemini.
At 19:44 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 4 days on 9 July 2097 at 08:58 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