Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 18 June 2084 at 10:00.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2084 after 28 days on 17 July 2084 at 17:01.
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 ∠1973" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1044 of Meeus index or 1997 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 25 minutes and it is 1 minute shorter 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 and 41 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 22 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 ∠157° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠180.4°.
1 day since point of perigee on 18 June 2084 at 20:15 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 July 2084 at 00:38 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 363 340 km (225 769 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 487 km (252 579 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 20:57 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 3 July 2084 at 17:59 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 17 June 2084 at 21:43 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.635° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.643° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 July 2084 at 04:53 in ♊ Gemini.
At 20:57 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 13 days on 3 July 2084 at 01:38 in ♋ Cancer 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.
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
