Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 2 July 2044 at 04:48.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2044 after 1 day on 10 July 2044 at 06:22.
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 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 550 of Meeus index or 1503 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 46 minutes and it is 1 hour and 10 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 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 11 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 ∠0.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠16°.
Moon is at apogee at 20:57 about 13 days since last perigee on 25 June 2044 at 09:26 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 23 July 2044 at 18:16 in ♋ Cancer.
This apogee Moon is 406 301 km (252 464 mi) away from Earth. It is 893 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 408 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
8 days after descending node on 30 June 2044 at 02:39 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 14 July 2044 at 16:24 in ♓ Pisces.
At 11:13 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.308°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.369° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 22 July 2044 at 09:09.
20 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 1 day on 10 July 2044 at 06:22 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.
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