Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 88% 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 ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 5 June 2050 at 09:51.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2050 after 26 days on 4 July 2050 at 18:51.
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 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1952" and ∠1890".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 623 of Meeus index or 1576 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 31 minutes and it is 1 hour and 24 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 1 hour and 13 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 56 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 ∠69.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠104.1°.
11 days since point of apogee on 28 May 2050 at 10:12 in ♍ Virgo 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 9 June 2050 at 18:25 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 367 240 km (228 192 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 158 km (228 763 mi).
4 days after ascending node on 3 June 2050 at 14:47 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 16 June 2050 at 11:27 in ♉ Taurus.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 5 June 2050 at 17:07 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.508° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.513° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 June 2050 at 15:49 in ♊ Gemini.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 19 June 2050 at 08:22 in ♊ Gemini 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