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 about ∠8° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 11 July 2065 at 01:16.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2065 after 1 day on 17 July 2065 at 17:45.
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 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1939" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 810 of Meeus index or 1763 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 30 minutes and it is 1 hour and 37 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 55 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 ∠235.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠270.8°.
1 day since point of perigee on 14 July 2065 at 17:50 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 July 2065 at 15:50 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 369 647 km (229 688 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 434 km (251 304 mi).
11 days after descending node on 4 July 2065 at 21:42 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 July 2065 at 20:19 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 15 July 2065 at 07:31 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.199° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.196° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 July 2065 at 06:45 in ♊ Gemini.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 17 July 2065 at 17:45 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
