Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 14 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 passing about ∠18° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
7 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 7 days on 12 June 2016 at 08:10.
Strawberry Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2016 after 1 day on 20 June 2016 at 11:02.
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 ∠1797"
Lunar disc appears visually 5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1797" and ∠1888".
Lunation 203 / 1156
The Moon is 14 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 203 of Meeus index or 1156 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 1 minute and it is 1 hour and 43 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 43 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 26 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠27.6°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠27.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠48.9°.
Moon after apogee
4 days since point of apogee on 15 June 2016 at 12:00 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 July 2016 at 06:45 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 398 976 km(247 912 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 983 km(227 411 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after ascending node on 11 June 2016 at 22:20 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 June 2016 at 05:28 in ♓ Pisces.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 6 June 2016 at 09:13 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.575° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-18.610° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 June 2016 at 18:52 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 1 day on 20 June 2016 at 11:02 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.