Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 27 June 2037 at 15:20.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2037 after 27 days on 27 July 2037 at 04:15.
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 4.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1803" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 463 of Meeus index or 1416 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 22 minutes and it is 1 hour and 12 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 3 hours and 23 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 47 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 ∠292.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠318.7°.
10 days since point of perigee on 18 June 2037 at 16:37 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 July 2037 at 19:50 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 397 490 km (246 989 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 478 km (251 331 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 10:01 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 13 July 2037 at 15:35 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 28 June 2037 at 01:35 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.369° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.362° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 July 2037 at 10:57 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 13 July 2037 at 02:32 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth 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