Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 92% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 ∠23° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 8 June 2085 at 02:02.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2085 after 26 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 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1890".
The Moon is 17 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°.
Moon is at perigee at 19:37 about 11 days since last apogee on 29 May 2085 at 22:33 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next apogee on 26 June 2085 at 15:24 in ♌ Leo.
This perigee Moon is 364 665 km (226 592 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 157 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 5 691 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
1 day after ascending node on 9 June 2085 at 01:14 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 22 June 2085 at 04:11 in ♋ Cancer.
2 days 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 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.128° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 June 2085 at 02:38 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 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