Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% 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 first ∠0° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 27 June 2096 at 13:31.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2096 after 1 day on 5 July 2096 at 17:02.
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 5.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1791" 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 1193 of Meeus index or 2146 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 9 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 4 hours and 35 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 34 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 ∠26.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠47.7°.
3 days since point of apogee on 30 June 2096 at 19:58 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 16 July 2096 at 15:28 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 400 155 km (248 645 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 786 km (227 289 mi).
2 days after descending node on 2 July 2096 at 01:01 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 July 2096 at 15:38 in ♉ Taurus.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 21 June 2096 at 00:14 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.330° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-26.318° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 July 2096 at 06:20 in ♑ Capricorn.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 5 July 2096 at 17:02 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