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 ∠18° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 21 May 2029 at 04:16.
Flower Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2029 after 1 day on 27 May 2029 at 18:37.
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 ∠1961"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1961" and ∠1894".
Lunation 363 / 1316
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 363 of Meeus index or 1316 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 8 minutes and it is 2 hours and 7 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 1 hour and 24 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 39 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠213.4°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠213.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠244.2°.
Moon after perigee
1 day since point of perigee on 25 May 2029 at 22:19 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 June 2029 at 22:09 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 365 531 km(227 130 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 105 km(251 721 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 16 May 2029 at 23:31 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 29 May 2029 at 17:34 in ♐ Sagittarius.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 15 May 2029 at 15:58 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.404° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.396° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 May 2029 at 14:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 1 day on 27 May 2029 at 18:37 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.