Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 95% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 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 ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 9 July 2076 at 10:49.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2076 after 1 day on 16 July 2076 at 10:12.
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 2.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1936" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 946 of Meeus index or 1899 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 1 minute and it is 37 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 17 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 46 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 ∠145.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠170.2°.
9 days since point of apogee on 4 July 2076 at 16:02 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 July 2076 at 05:58 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 370 337 km (230 117 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 186 km (222 566 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 12:03 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 27 July 2076 at 08:20 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 1 July 2076 at 09:39 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.319° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-24.329° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 July 2076 at 12:55 in ♑ Capricorn.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 16 July 2076 at 10:12 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
