Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 90% 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 about ∠23° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 17 July 2040 at 09:16.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2040 after 2 days on 24 July 2040 at 02:05.
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 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1959" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 501 of Meeus index or 1454 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 12 minutes and it is 25 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2040. 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 2 hours and 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 35 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 ∠175.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠199°.
11 days since point of apogee on 9 July 2040 at 20:13 in ♋ Cancer 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 23 July 2040 at 19:15 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 365 822 km (227 311 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 113 km (221 900 mi).
1 day after descending node on 20 July 2040 at 02:18 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 1 August 2040 at 17:44 in ♉ Taurus.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 8 July 2040 at 16:14 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.142° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-26.179° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 July 2040 at 14:28 in ♑ Capricorn.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 24 July 2040 at 02:05 in ♒ Aquarius 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