Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% 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 ∠5° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 12 July 2092 at 09:54.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2092 after 1 day on 19 July 2092 at 00:24.
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 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1144 of Meeus index or 2097 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 44 minutes and it is 1 hour and 24 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 longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 3 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 ∠215.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠246.7°.
Moon is at perigee at 01:42 about 15 days since last apogee on 1 July 2092 at 10:09 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next apogee on 29 July 2092 at 00:58 in ♊ Gemini.
This perigee Moon is 361 975 km (224 921 mi) away from Earth. It is 533 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 8 381 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
10 days after ascending node on 7 July 2092 at 07:36 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 July 2092 at 04:19 in ♒ Aquarius.
At 20:34 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-20.092°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠20.082° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 31 July 2092 at 20:14.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 19 July 2092 at 00:24 in ♒ Aquarius 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
