Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 65% 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 about ∠9° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 12 July 2073 at 05:16.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2073 after 5 days on 19 July 2073 at 05:04.
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% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 909 of Meeus index or 1862 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 48 minutes and it is 59 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 2 hours and 56 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 13 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 ∠284.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠313.1°.
2 days since point of perigee on 11 July 2073 at 07:01 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 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 July 2073 at 19:45 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 364 892 km (226 733 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 365 km (251 261 mi).
5 days after ascending node on 8 July 2073 at 01:28 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 21 July 2073 at 02:27 in ♒ Aquarius.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 4 July 2073 at 22:14 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.610° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.591° at the point of next southern standstill on 17 July 2073 at 20:15 in ♑ Capricorn.
5 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 5 days on 19 July 2073 at 05:04 in ♑ Capricorn 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