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 first ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 16 June 2032 at 03:00.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2032 after 1 day on 23 June 2032 at 11:32.
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 0% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1889" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 401 of Meeus index or 1354 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 9 minutes and it is 1 hour and 21 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 25 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 38 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 ∠108.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠140.6°.
7 days since point of apogee on 13 June 2032 at 16:28 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 June 2032 at 14:55 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 379 508 km (235 815 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 652 km (225 342 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 19 June 2032 at 13:56 in ♏ Scorpio 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 2 July 2032 at 05:24 in ♉ Taurus.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 8 June 2032 at 07:17 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.688° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-19.677° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 June 2032 at 16:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 23 June 2032 at 11:32 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