Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
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.
Moon phases on nearby dates
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Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 13 June 2092 at 02:33.
Strawberry Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2092 after 1 day on 19 June 2092 at 16:56.
Moderate tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1888".
Lunation 1143 / 2096
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1143 of Meeus index or 2096 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 53 minutes and it is 1 hour and 9 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 9 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 54 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠190.3°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠190.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠215.3°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 20:37 about 14 days since last apogee on 4 June 2092 at 01:49 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 1 July 2092 at 10:09 in ♊ Gemini.
This perigee Moon is 358 196 km(222 573 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 312 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 160 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 10 June 2092 at 04:20 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 22 June 2092 at 19:17 in ♒ Aquarius.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 7 June 2092 at 05:48 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.088° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-20.096° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 June 2092 at 09:44 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 1 day on 19 June 2092 at 16:56 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.