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Moon* ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 99% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99% and growing larger. The 14 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 18 May 2013 at 04:35.
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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1955"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1955" and ∠1894".
Flower Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2013 after 1 day on 25 May 2013 at 04:25.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 25 May 2013 at 04:25
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 31 May 2013 at 18:58
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 8 June 2013 at 15:56
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 16 June 2013 at 17:24
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.
Lunation 165 / 1118
The Moon is 14 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 165 of Meeus index or 1118 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 28 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2013. It is 10 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 19 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠143.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠143.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠168.8°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 13 May 2013 at 13:31 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 May 2013 at 01:45 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 366 614 km
The Moon is 366 614 km (227 803 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 375 km (222 684 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 00:40 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 6 June 2013 at 00:59 in ♉ Taurus.
New draconic month
At 00:40 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 12 May 2013 at 12:30 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.170°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-20.182° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 May 2013 at 04:47 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 25 May 2013 at 04:25 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.
