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Moon* ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 98% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 18 June 2021 at 03:54.
Moonrise and moonset
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 in ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1968"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1888".
Strawberry Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2021 after 1 day on 24 June 2021 at 18:40.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 24 June 2021 at 18:40
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 1 July 2021 at 21:11
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 10 July 2021 at 01:17
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 17 July 2021 at 10:11
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.
Lunation 265 / 1218
The Moon is 13 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 265 of Meeus index or 1218 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 24 minutes. It is 1 hour and 50 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 23 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠202.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠202.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠230.1°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 09:58. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 8 June 2021 at 02:27 in ♉ Taurus. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next apogee on 5 July 2021 at 14:48 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 359 960 km
This perigee Moon is 359 960 km (223 669 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 548 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 396 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 06:07 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 6 July 2021 at 22:41 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 12 June 2021 at 04:11 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.640°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-25.631° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 June 2021 at 05:49 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 24 June 2021 at 18:40 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.
