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Moon ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 97% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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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 16 April 2043 at 10:09.
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 ∠13° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1784"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1784" and ∠1909".
Pink Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2043 after 1 day on 24 April 2043 at 07:23.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 24 April 2043 at 07:23
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 2 May 2043 at 08:59
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 9 May 2043 at 03:21
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 15 May 2043 at 21:05
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 535 / 1488
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 535 of Meeus index or 1488 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.34 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 15 minutes. It is 1 hour and 1 minute 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 29 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 40 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠345.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠345.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠0.5°.
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of perigee on 10 April 2043 at 16:14 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 25 April 2043 at 12:50 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 401 819 km
The Moon is 401 819 km (249 679 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 255 km (252 435 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 04:12 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 6 May 2043 at 11:10 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 14 April 2043 at 15:23 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.638°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.582° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 April 2043 at 03:33 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 24 April 2043 at 07:23 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.
