Waxing
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase on 21 May 2051 Sunday is Waxing Gibbous, 11 days young Moon is in Libra.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 84% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 17 May 2051 at 13:29.
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 is passing about ∠14° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1896".
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2051 after 4 days on 25 May 2051 at 17:35.
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.
The Moon is 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 635 of Meeus index or 1588 from Brown series.
Length of current 635 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 27 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2051. It is 46 minutes shorter than next lunation 636 length.
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 17 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 52 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠23.1°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠43.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 04:56, this is 12 days after last perigee on 9 May 2051 at 01:26 in ♈ Aries. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 15 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 6 June 2051 at 01:20 in ♉ Taurus.
This apogee Moon is 405 251 km (251 811 mi) away from Earth. It is 157 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 458 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
12 days after its descending node on 9 May 2051 at 06:46 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 23 May 2051 at 02:03 in ♏ Scorpio.
25 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
8 days after previous North standstill on 12 May 2051 at 15:20 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠19.181°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-19.213° in the next southern standstill on 27 May 2051 at 03:09 in ♐ Sagittarius.
After 4 days on 25 May 2051 at 17:35 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.