Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 5 July 2098 at 16:31.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2098 after 1 day on 13 July 2098 at 10:35.
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% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1796" 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 1218 of Meeus index or 2171 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 45 minutes and it is 17 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2098. 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°).
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 ∠339.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠355.1°.
11 days since point of perigee on 30 June 2098 at 07:43 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 15 July 2098 at 11:43 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 399 164 km (248 029 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 183 km (252 390 mi).
5 days after descending node on 6 July 2098 at 02:56 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 20 July 2098 at 16:26 in ♈ Aries.
At 22:01 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.167°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.239° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 26 July 2098 at 04:44.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 13 July 2098 at 10:35 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