Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 80% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 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 ∠20° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 1 August 2063 at 09:09.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2063 after 4 days on 9 August 2063 at 04:40.
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 3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1836" and ∠1891".
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 786 of Meeus index or 1739 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 22 minutes and it is 42 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2063. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 47 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 ∠343.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠358.9°.
8 days since point of perigee on 26 July 2063 at 17:32 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 August 2063 at 16:02 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 390 466 km (242 624 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 175 km (252 385 mi).
7 days after descending node on 27 July 2063 at 19:57 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 August 2063 at 15:51 in ♒ Aquarius.
At 23:40 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.211°. Over the upcoming 15 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.242° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 19 August 2063 at 15:04.
21 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 4 days on 9 August 2063 at 04:40 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