Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 95% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 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 ∠23° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 6 August 2030 at 16:43.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2030 after 1 day on 13 August 2030 at 10:44.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1943" and ∠1893".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 378 of Meeus index or 1331 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 56 minutes and it is 1 hour and 9 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 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 21 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 ∠244.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠279.9°.
1 day since point of perigee on 9 August 2030 at 22:50 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 August 2030 at 22:49 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 368 861 km (229 200 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 174 km (251 142 mi).
2 days after ascending node on 8 August 2030 at 19:44 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 22 August 2030 at 08:09 in ♊ Gemini.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 9 August 2030 at 01:58 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.572° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.465° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 August 2030 at 18:22 in ♊ Gemini.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 13 August 2030 at 10:44 in ♒ Aquarius 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