Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% 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.
Slide horizontally to discover the moon phase on nearby dates.
Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 19 June 2048 at 10:49.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2048 after 1 day on 26 June 2048 at 02:08.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 4.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 599 of Meeus index or 1552 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 14 minutes and it is 1 hour and 19 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 2 hours and 30 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 33 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠186.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠210.3°.
13 days since point of apogee on 10 June 2048 at 20:20 in ♊ Gemini 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 25 June 2048 at 09:51 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 363 357 km (225 780 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 914 km (222 397 mi).
12 days after descending node on 12 June 2048 at 01:40 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 25 June 2048 at 14:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 23:22 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.752°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.746° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 8 July 2048 at 12:46.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 26 June 2048 at 02:08 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