Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 85% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 29 June 2045 at 07:16.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2045 after 25 days on 28 July 2045 at 22:11.
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 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 562 of Meeus index or 1515 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 24 minutes and it is 13 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 5 hours and 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 49 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 ∠328° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠345.4°.
1 day since point of apogee on 2 July 2045 at 18:04 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 July 2045 at 07:12 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 404 959 km (251 630 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 581 km (222 812 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 02:35 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 16 July 2045 at 11:05 in ♌ Leo.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 28 June 2045 at 04:19 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.699° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.744° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 July 2045 at 12:55 in ♊ Gemini.
At 02:35 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 10 days on 14 July 2045 at 10:28 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