Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 6% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days 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 ∠19° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 7 June 2100 at 23:31.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2100 after 11 days on 22 June 2100 at 01:11.
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% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1849" and ∠1890".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1242 of Meeus index or 2195 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 35 minutes and it is 1 hour and 40 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 9 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours 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 ∠227.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠261°.
6 days since point of apogee on 3 June 2100 at 17:09 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 June 2100 at 12:17 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 387 648 km (240 873 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 024 km (226 194 mi).
10 days after ascending node on 31 May 2100 at 02:55 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 14 June 2100 at 11:14 in ♍ Virgo.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 8 June 2100 at 18:51 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.177° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.185° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 June 2100 at 19:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 22 June 2100 at 01:11 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