Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% 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 about ∠7° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 12 August 2062 at 00:21.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2062 after 1 day on 20 August 2062 at 03:55.
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 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1896".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 774 of Meeus index or 1727 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 2 minutes and it is 2 hours and 5 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 4 hours and 42 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 27 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 ∠14° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠31.5°.
1 day since point of apogee on 16 August 2062 at 18:05 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 September 2062 at 10:35 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 404 583 km (251 396 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 122 km (225 012 mi).
10 days after descending node on 7 August 2062 at 17:38 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 22 August 2062 at 04:45 in ♓ Pisces.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 15 August 2062 at 06:10 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.592° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.645° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 August 2062 at 10:48 in ♊ Gemini.
23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 20 August 2062 at 03:55 in ♒ Aquarius 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
