Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 71% 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 passing first ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 26 July 2069 at 05:30.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2069 after 5 days on 2 August 2069 at 23:44.
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% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1890".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 860 of Meeus index or 1813 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 50 minutes and it is 2 hours and 42 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 54 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 15 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 ∠66.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠99.7°.
2 days since point of apogee on 26 July 2069 at 04:43 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 August 2069 at 17:00 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 402 935 km (250 372 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 723 km (229 114 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 26 July 2069 at 17:40 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 9 August 2069 at 03:46 in ♉ Taurus.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 15 July 2069 at 22:08 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.867° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-19.783° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 July 2069 at 03:42 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 5 days on 2 August 2069 at 23:44 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