Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 77% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 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 ∠2° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 13 June 2073 at 00:47.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2073 after 4 days on 19 June 2073 at 18:44.
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 4.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 908 of Meeus index or 1861 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 25 minutes and it is 1 hour and 37 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 1 hour and 19 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 50 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 ∠250° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠284.5°.
Moon is at perigee at 21:26 about 15 days since last apogee on 31 May 2073 at 06:54 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 28 June 2073 at 01:09 in ♈ Aries.
This perigee Moon is 367 448 km (228 322 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 940 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 2 908 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
4 days after ascending node on 10 June 2073 at 22:06 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 23 June 2073 at 19:45 in ♒ Aquarius.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 7 June 2073 at 13:47 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.587° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.607° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 June 2073 at 11:20 in ♑ Capricorn.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 19 June 2073 at 18:44 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