Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% 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 ∠8° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 8 June 2085 at 02:02.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2085 after 27 days on 7 July 2085 at 10:14.
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 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1947" 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 1056 of Meeus index or 2009 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 55 minutes and it is 1 hour and 30 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 11 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 52 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 ∠94.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠128.7°.
10 days since point of apogee on 29 May 2085 at 22:33 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 June 2085 at 19:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 368 153 km (228 760 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 665 km (226 592 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 01:14 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 22 June 2085 at 04:11 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 8 June 2085 at 03:12 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.119° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.128° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 June 2085 at 02:38 in ♊ Gemini.
At 01:14 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 12 days on 22 June 2085 at 03:18 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