Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 78% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 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 ∠9° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 26 August 2039 at 23:16.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2039 after 4 days on 2 September 2039 at 19:23.
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 3.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1900".
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 490 of Meeus index or 1443 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 32 minutes and it is 46 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 1 hour and 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 57 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 ∠260.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠294.5°.
Moon is at perigee at 03:16 about 15 days since last apogee on 13 August 2039 at 19:35 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 10 September 2039 at 14:24 in ♊ Gemini.
This perigee Moon is 368 737 km (229 123 mi) away from Earth. It is 6 229 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 1 619 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
1 day after descending node on 28 August 2039 at 01:19 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 September 2039 at 13:18 in ♊ Gemini.
At 14:11 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-24.880°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠24.993° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 12 September 2039 at 12:07.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 2 September 2039 at 19:23 in ♓ Pisces 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