Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 95% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 9 July 2057 at 18:37.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2057 after 1 day on 16 July 2057 at 09:28.
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 4.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 711 of Meeus index or 1664 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 45 minutes and it is 1 hour and 22 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 2 hours longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 2 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 ∠196.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠222.5°.
14 days since point of apogee on 30 June 2057 at 05:32 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 July 2057 at 07:01 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 363 309 km (225 750 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 100 km (223 134 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 23:47 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 28 July 2057 at 14:55 in ♊ Gemini.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 2 July 2057 at 02:54 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.700° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-23.701° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 July 2057 at 13:52 in ♑ Capricorn.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 16 July 2057 at 09:28 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
