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Moon* ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase on 23 June 2040 Saturday is Waxing Gibbous, 13 days young Moon is in Sagittarius.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 17 June 2040 at 21:32.
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.
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1954" and ∠1888".
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2040 after 1 day on 24 June 2040 at 19:19.
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.
The Moon is 13 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 500 of Meeus index or 1453 from Brown series.
Length of current 500 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 12 minutes. It is longer than next lunation 501 length.
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 28 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 35 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠152°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠175.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
10 days after point of apogee on 12 June 2040 at 14:18 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 25 June 2040 at 09:33 in ♑ Capricorn.
Moon is 366 860 km (227 956 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 652 km (222 235 mi).
1 day after its descending node on 22 June 2040 at 18:43 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 5 July 2040 at 15:32 in ♉ Taurus.
15 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
12 days after previous North standstill on 11 June 2040 at 10:37 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠26.166°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-26.156° in the next southern standstill on 25 June 2040 at 04:10 in ♑ Capricorn.
After 1 day on 24 June 2040 at 19:19 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.