Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 14 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 ∠22° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 19 June 2010 at 04:30.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2010 after 1 day on 26 June 2010 at 11:30.
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 3.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1830" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 14 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 129 of Meeus index or 1082 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 26 minutes and it is 58 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 4 hours and 18 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 51 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 ∠311.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠332.7°.
9 days since point of perigee on 15 June 2010 at 14:54 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 July 2010 at 10:12 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 391 597 km (243 327 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 036 km (251 678 mi).
11 days after descending node on 13 June 2010 at 21:54 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 June 2010 at 01:19 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 05:09 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-25.038°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠25.043° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 9 July 2010 at 16:50.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 26 June 2010 at 11:30 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