Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 82% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
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.
Moon phases on nearby dates
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Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 3 July 2052 at 20:59.
Buck Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2052 after 4 days on 12 July 2052 at 00:23.
Neap tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".
Lunation 649 / 1602
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 649 of Meeus index or 1602 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 41 minutes and it is 1 hour and 55 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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 3 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 6 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠23.2°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠23.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠43°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 12:41 about 12 days since last perigee on 25 June 2052 at 08:22 in ♊ Gemini 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 2052 at 08:05 in ♊ Gemini.
This apogee Moon is 405 232 km(251 799 mi) away from Earth. It is 176 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 477 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
3 days after ascending node on 3 July 2052 at 14:53 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 17 July 2052 at 23:36 in ♈ Aries.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 26 June 2052 at 04:20 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.498° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.479° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 July 2052 at 04:04 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 4 days on 12 July 2052 at 00:23 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.