Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 64% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 ∠13° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 16 July 2078 at 23:48.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2078 after 6 days on 24 July 2078 at 22:07.
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 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 971 of Meeus index or 1924 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 43 minutes and it is 2 hours and 24 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 8 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 ∠50.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠80.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 01:21 about 11 days since last perigee on 6 July 2078 at 02:20 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 1 August 2078 at 02:41 in ♉ Taurus.
This apogee Moon is 404 149 km (251 127 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2078. It is 1 259 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 98 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♏ Scorpio at 20:35 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 1 August 2078 at 08:13 in ♉ Taurus.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 8 July 2078 at 17:05 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.043° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.072° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 July 2078 at 23:47 in ♑ Capricorn.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 24 July 2078 at 22:07 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
