Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 93% 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 passing first ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 19 June 2086 at 04:33.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2086 after 2 days on 27 June 2086 at 00:04.
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 3.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1821" 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 1069 of Meeus index or 2022 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 50 minutes and it is 1 hour and 46 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 1 hour and 54 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 15 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 ∠62.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠95.5°.
5 days since point of apogee on 19 June 2086 at 09:56 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 July 2086 at 04:43 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 393 696 km (244 631 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 036 km (229 308 mi).
13 days after descending node on 10 June 2086 at 21:57 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 25 June 2086 at 07:25 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 11 June 2086 at 06:00 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.467° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-22.460° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 June 2086 at 15:51 in ♐ Sagittarius.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 27 June 2086 at 00:04 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