Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 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 about ∠25° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 25 June 2088 at 20:29.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2088 after 1 day 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 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1094 of Meeus index or 2047 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 45 minutes and it is 52 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2088. 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 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 10 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 ∠3.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠18.9°.
Moon is at apogee at 03:52 about 13 days since last perigee on 18 June 2088 at 20:56 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 17 July 2088 at 05:29 in ♋ Cancer.
This apogee Moon is 406 181 km (252 389 mi) away from Earth. It is 773 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 528 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
4 days after ascending node on 28 June 2088 at 05:57 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 12 July 2088 at 16:44 in ♈ Aries.
At 04:58 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-19.425°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠19.354° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 16 July 2088 at 02:03.
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 1 day on 3 July 2088 at 23:22 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