Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% 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 passing first ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 3 July 2052 at 20:59.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2052 after 1 day on 12 July 2052 at 00:23.
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 5.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1783" 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 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°).
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.
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°.
2 days since point of apogee on 7 July 2052 at 12:41 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 July 2052 at 08:05 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 402 090 km (249 847 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 746 km (226 643 mi).
6 days after ascending node on 3 July 2052 at 14:53 in ♎ Libra 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 17 July 2052 at 23:36 in ♈ Aries.
At 04:04 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-18.479°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠18.413° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 23 July 2052 at 14:42.
6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day 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.
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