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Moon* ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 99% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99% and growing larger. The 14 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
7 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 7 days on 25 June 2042 at 11:29.
Moonrise and moonset
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 entering ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1849"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1849" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2042 after 1 day on 3 July 2042 at 08:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 3 July 2042 at 08:09
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 10 July 2042 at 05:38
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 17 July 2042 at 05:52
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 25 July 2042 at 05:01
Moderate tide
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.
Lunation 525 / 1478
The Moon is 14 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 525 of Meeus index or 1478 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.42 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 4 minutes. It is 2 hours and 5 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 40 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 29 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠57.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠57.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠88.8°.
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 26 June 2042 at 01:31 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 9 July 2042 at 07:47 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 387 727 km
The Moon is 387 727 km (240 922 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 567 km (229 638 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 27 June 2042 at 04:23 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 10 July 2042 at 13:42 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
18 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 18:24 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.069°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.092° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 15 July 2042 at 16:02.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 3 July 2042 at 08:09 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
