Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 68% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 26 June 2069 at 12:10.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2069 after 6 days on 4 July 2069 at 13:05.
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 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 859 of Meeus index or 1812 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 59 minutes and it is 1 hour and 51 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 3 hours and 45 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 24 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 ∠40.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠66.4°.
Moon is at apogee at 10:15 about 11 days since last perigee on 16 June 2069 at 13:22 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 13 July 2069 at 15:08 in ♉ Taurus.
This apogee Moon is 404 412 km (251 290 mi) away from Earth. It is 996 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 297 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
12 days after descending node on 15 June 2069 at 23:37 in ♉ Taurus 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 29 June 2069 at 14:55 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 18 June 2069 at 12:47 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.940° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.920° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 July 2069 at 18:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 4 July 2069 at 13:05 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