Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% 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 ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 4 June 2088 at 08:08.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2088 after 28 days on 3 July 2088 at 23:22.
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 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1891".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1093 of Meeus index or 2046 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 5 minutes and it is 20 minutes longer 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 5 hours and 39 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 30 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 ∠348.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠3.5°.
Moon is at apogee at 01:04 about 14 days since last perigee on 21 May 2088 at 11:25 in ♊ Gemini 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 18 June 2088 at 20:56 in ♊ Gemini.
This apogee Moon is 406 311 km (252 470 mi) away from Earth. It is 903 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 398 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
4 days after ascending node on 1 June 2088 at 03:13 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 15 June 2088 at 12:42 in ♉ Taurus.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 4 June 2088 at 21:46 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.441° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.431° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 June 2088 at 14:44 in ♊ Gemini.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 19 June 2088 at 01:54 in ♊ Gemini 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