Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 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 about ∠11° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 13 June 2073 at 00:47.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2073 after 1 day on 19 June 2073 at 18:44.
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 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1924" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 13 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°.
2 days since point of perigee on 15 June 2073 at 21:26 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 June 2073 at 01:09 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 372 548 km (231 491 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 196 km (251 156 mi).
7 days after ascending node on 10 June 2073 at 22:06 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 23 June 2073 at 19:45 in ♒ Aquarius.
10 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 day to face maximum declination of ∠-19.607° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 June 2073 at 11:20 in ♑ Capricorn.
7 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 1 day 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