Waning Crescent Moon in Taurus on 15 June 2023 Thursday (2024)

Moon in ♉ Taurus

Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 10 June 2023 at 19:31.

Buck Moon after 17 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2023 after 17 days on 3 July 2023 at 11:39.

Neap tide

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1861"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1861" and ∠1889".

Lunation 289 / 1242

The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 289 of Meeus index or 1242 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.53 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 44 minutes and it is 1 hour and 11 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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°).

Lunation length same as the mean

The length of the current synodic month is equal to the mean synodic month length. It is %hours_to_shortest% and %minutes_to_shortest% longer than the 21st century's shortest and %hours_to_longest% and %minutes_to_longest% shorter than the 21st century's longest synodic months.

True anomaly ∠92.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠92.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠127.4°.

Moon before apogee

8 days since point of perigee on 6 June 2023 at 23:07 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 June 2023 at 18:30 in ♌ Leo.

Last perigee | Next apogee

Distance to Moon 385 242 km

The Moon is 385 242 km (239 378 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 385 km (251 895 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 14 June 2023 at 00:05 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 28 June 2023 at 12:22 in ♏ Scorpio.

Last node | Next node

Moon before northern standstill

9 days since the last southern standstill on 5 June 2023 at 16:21 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.866° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.833° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 June 2023 at 21:07 in ♊ Gemini.

Last standstill | Next standstill

Draconic month

1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

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Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 18 June 2023 at 04:37 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.

Last syzygy | Next syzygy