Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 78% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 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 ∠11° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 30 June 2072 at 10:21.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2072 after 24 days on 30 July 2072 at 00:17.
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 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 896 of Meeus index or 1849 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 59 minutes and it is 34 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 4 hours and 45 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour 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 ∠313.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠333.8°.
Moon is at apogee at 05:53 about 15 days since last perigee on 19 June 2072 at 10:24 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next perigee on 17 July 2072 at 07:53 in ♌ Leo.
This apogee Moon is 404 994 km (251 652 mi) away from Earth. It is 414 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 715 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♓ Pisces at 13:03 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 18 July 2072 at 20:41 in ♍ Virgo.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 30 June 2072 at 01:20 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.704° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.668° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 July 2072 at 10:48 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 15 July 2072 at 17:56 in ♋ Cancer 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