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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 2 July 2080 at 04:09.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2080 after 28 days on 31 July 2080 at 19:13.
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 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 995 of Meeus index or 1948 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 40 minutes and it is 12 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2080. 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 6 hours and 4 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 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 ∠341.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠357°.
Moon is at apogee at 22:07 about 15 days since last perigee on 18 June 2080 at 21:12 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 17 July 2080 at 05:42 in ♋ Cancer.
This apogee Moon is 406 236 km (252 423 mi) away from Earth. It is 828 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 473 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
8 days after descending node on 24 June 2080 at 18:02 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 9 July 2080 at 07:56 in ♈ Aries.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 1 July 2080 at 08:40 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.365° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.422° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 July 2080 at 11:18 in ♋ Cancer.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 17 July 2080 at 01:21 in ♋ Cancer 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