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 ∠9° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 7 June 2068 at 22:20.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2068 after 1 day on 15 June 2068 at 17:00.
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 1.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1854" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 846 of Meeus index or 1799 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 8 minutes and it is 1 hour and 35 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 1 hour and 36 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 33 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 ∠66° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠99.8°.
6 days since point of apogee on 7 June 2068 at 22:05 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 20 June 2068 at 10:58 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 386 683 km (240 274 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 627 km (229 054 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 13 June 2068 at 23:06 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 June 2068 at 20:13 in ♉ Taurus.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 31 May 2068 at 17:47 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.451° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-21.453° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 June 2068 at 04:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 15 June 2068 at 17:00 in ♐ Sagittarius 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