Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 85% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 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 ∠24° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 28 June 2031 at 00:19.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2031 after 3 days on 4 July 2031 at 19:01.
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 2.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1935" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 389 of Meeus index or 1342 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 16 minutes and it is 24 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2031. 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 31 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 31 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 ∠165.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠188.7°.
10 days since point of apogee on 21 June 2031 at 11:25 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 July 2031 at 21:14 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 370 351 km (230 125 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 008 km (221 834 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 18:35 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 14 July 2031 at 12:38 in ♉ Taurus.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 19 June 2031 at 02:22 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.105° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-21.077° at the point of next southern standstill on 3 July 2031 at 05:15 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 18:35 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 3 days on 4 July 2031 at 19:01 in ♑ Capricorn 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