Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 ∠5° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 9 June 2074 at 09:27.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2074 after 28 days on 8 July 2074 at 17:05.
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 2.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1946" and ∠1890".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 920 of Meeus index or 1873 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 54 minutes and it is 1 hour and 26 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 10 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 53 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠193.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠218.8°.
2 days since point of perigee on 8 June 2074 at 10:20 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 June 2074 at 21:28 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 368 305 km (228 854 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 879 km (252 202 mi).
10 days after ascending node on 30 May 2074 at 19:46 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 12 June 2074 at 10:42 in ♒ Aquarius.
At 21:20 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-20.986°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠21.016° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 25 June 2074 at 05:18.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 14 days on 24 June 2074 at 13:38 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