Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 4 May 2055 at 11:10.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2055 after 1 day on 11 May 2055 at 02:31.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1958" and ∠1900".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 684 of Meeus index or 1637 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 40 minutes and it is 2 hours and 22 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 56 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 7 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠221.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠254.3°.
1 day since point of perigee on 8 May 2055 at 21:10 in ♎ Libra 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 20 May 2055 at 18:43 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 366 051 km (227 454 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 756 km (251 504 mi).
4 days after ascending node on 4 May 2055 at 12:19 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 17 May 2055 at 07:26 in ♒ Aquarius.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 1 May 2055 at 22:10 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.193° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.280° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 May 2055 at 15:50 in ♑ Capricorn.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 11 May 2055 at 02:31 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