Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 95% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 ∠23° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 17 June 2019 at 08:31.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2019 after 27 days on 16 July 2019 at 21:38.
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 5.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1795" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 240 of Meeus index or 1193 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 14 minutes and it is 1 hour and 18 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 3 hours and 30 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 39 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 ∠296.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠321.4°.
11 days since point of perigee on 7 June 2019 at 23:21 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 June 2019 at 07:50 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 399 329 km (248 132 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 549 km (251 375 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 01:49 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 3 July 2019 at 06:53 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 18 June 2019 at 15:33 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.381° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.379° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 July 2019 at 22:02 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 2 July 2019 at 19:16 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
