Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
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.
Moon phases on nearby dates
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Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 5 June 2014 at 20:39.
Strawberry Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2014 after 1 day on 13 June 2014 at 04:11.
Moderate tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1901"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1901" and ∠1890".
Lunation 178 / 1131
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 178 of Meeus index or 1131 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 28 minutes and it is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 19 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠112.5°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠112.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠144.1°.
Moon before perigee
8 days since point of apogee on 3 June 2014 at 04:25 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 June 2014 at 03:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 377 014 km(234 266 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 062 km(224 975 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 9 June 2014 at 05:36 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 21 June 2014 at 20:30 in ♈ Aries.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 30 May 2014 at 00:38 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.023° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-19.033° at the point of next southern standstill on 13 June 2014 at 06:03 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 1 day on 13 June 2014 at 04:11 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.