Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% 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 ∠25° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 22 June 2043 at 14:20.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2043 after 27 days on 22 July 2043 at 03:24.
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 3.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1821" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 537 of Meeus index or 1490 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 16 minutes and it is 1 hour and 16 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 5 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 41 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 ∠15.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠33.6°.
5 days since point of apogee on 18 June 2043 at 23:28 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 July 2043 at 16:08 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 393 569 km (244 552 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 588 km (225 302 mi).
9 days after descending node on 15 June 2043 at 09:52 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 29 June 2043 at 18:46 in ♓ Pisces.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 22 June 2043 at 14:03 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.403° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.429° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 July 2043 at 19:20 in ♊ Gemini.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 6 July 2043 at 17:51 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