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Moon* ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 99% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99% and growing larger. The 14 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
7 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 7 days on 17 June 2078 at 07:08.
Moonrise and moonset
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.
Moon in ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1799"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1799" and ∠1888".
Strawberry Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2078 after 1 day on 25 June 2078 at 10:22.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 25 June 2078 at 10:22
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 2 July 2078 at 16:25
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 9 July 2078 at 10:08
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 16 July 2078 at 23:48
Moderate tide
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.
Lunation 970 / 1923
The Moon is 14 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 970 of Meeus index or 1923 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 19 minutes. It is 1 hour and 24 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 25 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 44 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠29°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠29°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠50.9°.
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 20 June 2078 at 07:41 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 July 2078 at 02:20 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 398 418 km
The Moon is 398 418 km (247 565 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 394 km (227 667 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 21 June 2078 at 16:55 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 5 July 2078 at 06:31 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
16 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 11 June 2078 at 07:53 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.059°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-27.037° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 June 2078 at 16:54 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 25 June 2078 at 10:22 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.
