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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 98% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 27 March 2034 at 01:18.
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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1790"
Lunar disc appears visually 7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1790" and ∠1919".
Pink Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2034 after 1 day on 3 April 2034 at 19:19.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 3 April 2034 at 19:19
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 11 April 2034 at 22:45
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 18 April 2034 at 19:26
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 25 April 2034 at 11:35
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 423 / 1376
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 423 of Meeus index or 1376 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 11 minutes. It is 1 hour and 24 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 36 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠337.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠337.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠353.9°.
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of perigee on 21 March 2034 at 18:12 in ♈ Aries. 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 6 April 2034 at 03:44 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 400 468 km
The Moon is 400 468 km (248 839 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 054 km (252 310 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 21:12 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 17 April 2034 at 02:12 in ♈ Aries.
New draconic month
At 21:12 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 26 March 2034 at 12:34 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.139°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.168° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 April 2034 at 02:35 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 3 April 2034 at 19:19 in ♎ Libra 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.
