Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 91% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 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 ∠17° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 9 August 2065 at 05:52.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2065 after 2 days on 16 August 2065 at 03:45.
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 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1930" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 811 of Meeus index or 1764 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 53 minutes and it is 1 hour and 8 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 1 hour and 51 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 18 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 ∠270.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠303.1°.
3 days since point of perigee on 10 August 2065 at 06:04 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 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 August 2065 at 10:35 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 371 458 km (230 813 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 249 km (251 189 mi).
12 days after descending node on 1 August 2065 at 05:11 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 14 August 2065 at 04:46 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 11 August 2065 at 14:30 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.171° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.110° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 August 2065 at 15:06 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 2 days on 16 August 2065 at 03:45 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