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Moon ♎ Libra
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 96% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 96% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 20 April 2002 at 12:48.
Moonrise and moonset
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 in ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1970"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1907".
Pink Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2002 after 1 day on 27 April 2002 at 03:00.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 27 April 2002 at 03:00
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 4 May 2002 at 07:16
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 12 May 2002 at 10:45
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 19 May 2002 at 19:42
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 28 / 981
The Moon is 13 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 28 of Meeus index or 981 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 24 minutes. It is 2 hours and 23 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 23 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠204.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠204.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠233.6°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 16:25. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 10 April 2002 at 05:32 in ♓ Pisces. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next apogee on 7 May 2002 at 19:15 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 360 088 km
This perigee Moon is 360 088 km (223 748 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 420 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 268 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 17 April 2002 at 09:15 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 30 April 2002 at 00:29 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
8 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 19 April 2002 at 02:11 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.908°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.975° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 May 2002 at 16:55 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 27 April 2002 at 03:00 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
