Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 73% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 ∠19° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 10 June 2038 at 11:11.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2038 after 4 days on 17 June 2038 at 02:30.
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 4.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 475 of Meeus index or 1428 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 8 minutes and it is 2 hours 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 24 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 39 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 ∠226° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠259.5°.
13 days since point of apogee on 29 May 2038 at 20:16 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 14 June 2038 at 15:26 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 363 512 km (225 876 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 752 km (226 025 mi).
7 days after ascending node on 5 June 2038 at 06:06 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 18 June 2038 at 02:42 in ♑ Capricorn.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 5 June 2038 at 09:24 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.031° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.039° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 June 2038 at 05:58 in ♑ Capricorn.
7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 17 June 2038 at 02:30 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