Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 88% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 12 June 2071 at 17:36.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2071 after 25 days on 12 July 2071 at 08:25.
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 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 883 of Meeus index or 1836 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 4 minutes and it is 28 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 5 hours and 40 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 29 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 ∠334° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠350.4°.
1 day since point of apogee on 15 June 2071 at 11:49 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 June 2071 at 08:00 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 404 702 km (251 470 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 750 km (222 296 mi).
9 days after ascending node on 6 June 2071 at 13:14 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 21 June 2071 at 02:58 in ♈ Aries.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 13 June 2071 at 08:15 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.428° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.410° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 June 2071 at 07:57 in ♊ Gemini.
9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 27 June 2071 at 18:21 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth 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