Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 90% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 days young.
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.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 5 May 2052 at 19:05.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2052 after 3 days on 13 May 2052 at 19:00.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 5.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1790" and ∠1900".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 647 of Meeus index or 1600 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 29 minutes and it is 29 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 54 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠352.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠7.2°.
10 days since point of perigee on 29 April 2052 at 14:35 in ♉ Taurus 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 13 May 2052 at 20:41 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 400 424 km (248 812 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 342 km (252 489 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♎ Libra at 10:36 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 24 May 2052 at 19:07 in ♈ Aries.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 2 May 2052 at 05:36 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.384° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.443° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 May 2052 at 13:00 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 10:36 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 3 days on 13 May 2052 at 19:00 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.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov