Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% 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 about ∠9° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 14 June 2041 at 10:59.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2041 after 28 days on 13 July 2041 at 19:01.
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 2.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1934" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 512 of Meeus index or 1465 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 21 minutes and it is 1 hour and 24 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 23 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 46 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 ∠88.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠123.4°.
9 days since point of apogee on 5 June 2041 at 13:34 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 June 2041 at 11:48 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 370 575 km (230 265 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 482 km (227 100 mi).
3 days after descending node on 11 June 2041 at 14:42 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 24 June 2041 at 08:57 in ♉ Taurus.
At 09:11 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.308°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.286° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 28 June 2041 at 10:46.
18 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 12 days on 28 June 2041 at 11:17 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