Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 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 about ∠5° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 9 June 2030 at 03:36.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2030 after 1 day on 15 June 2030 at 18:41.
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 4.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 376 of Meeus index or 1329 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 13 minutes and it is 1 hour and 36 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 29 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 34 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 ∠189° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠213.7°.
Moon is at perigee at 23:37 about 14 days since last apogee on 31 May 2030 at 06:14 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 27 June 2030 at 14:14 in ♉ Taurus.
This perigee Moon is 358 183 km (222 565 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 325 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 173 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
12 days after descending node on 1 June 2030 at 17:30 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 June 2030 at 05:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 1 June 2030 at 20:22 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.730° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-22.735° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 June 2030 at 07:44 in ♐ Sagittarius.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 15 June 2030 at 18:41 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.
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