Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 78% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 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 ∠5° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 26 June 2010 at 11:30.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2010 after 24 days on 26 July 2010 at 01:37.
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 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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°.
Moon is at apogee at 10:12 about 15 days since last perigee on 15 June 2010 at 14:54 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next perigee on 13 July 2010 at 11:21 in ♌ Leo.
This apogee Moon is 405 036 km (251 678 mi) away from Earth. It is 372 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 673 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
4 days after ascending node on 27 June 2010 at 01:19 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 11 July 2010 at 07:30 in ♋ Cancer.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 25 June 2010 at 05:09 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.038° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.043° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 July 2010 at 16:50 in ♊ Gemini.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 11 July 2010 at 19:40 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