Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 66% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 about ∠5° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 5 July 2060 at 17:38.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2060 after 6 days on 13 July 2060 at 15:08.
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 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 748 of Meeus index or 1701 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 52 minutes and it is 2 hours and 15 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 2 hours and 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 17 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 ∠54.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠84.5°.
1 day since point of apogee on 6 July 2060 at 13:25 in ♎ Libra 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 20 July 2060 at 04:58 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 405 151 km (251 749 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 731 km (229 740 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♏ Scorpio at 12:29 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 20 July 2060 at 22:57 in ♈ Aries.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 28 June 2060 at 00:46 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.624° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.639° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 July 2060 at 09:29 in ♑ Capricorn.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 13 July 2060 at 15:08 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