Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 29 June 2039 at 11:17.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2039 after 1 day on 6 July 2039 at 02:03.
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 4.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 488 of Meeus index or 1441 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 33 minutes and it is 1 hour and 37 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 1 hour and 49 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 14 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠199.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠226.3°.
Moon is at perigee at 20:31 about 15 days since last apogee on 19 June 2039 at 15:56 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 17 July 2039 at 03:14 in ♊ Gemini.
This perigee Moon is 359 517 km (223 394 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 991 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 839 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 14:57 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 18 July 2039 at 06:48 in ♊ Gemini.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 22 June 2039 at 16:02 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.701° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-24.696° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 July 2039 at 22:01 in ♑ Capricorn.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 6 July 2039 at 02:03 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
