Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 94% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 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 first ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 16 June 2013 at 17:24.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2013 after 1 day on 23 June 2013 at 11:32.
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 3.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 166 of Meeus index or 1119 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes and it is 42 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 2 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 29 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 ∠168.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠191.6°.
11 days since point of apogee on 9 June 2013 at 21:40 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 June 2013 at 11:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 365 626 km (227 189 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 990 km (221 823 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 20 June 2013 at 09:51 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 3 July 2013 at 04:15 in ♉ Taurus.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 8 June 2013 at 19:16 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.200° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-20.186° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 June 2013 at 16:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 23 June 2013 at 11:32 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