Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 93% 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 ∠20° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 6 May 2071 at 19:05.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2071 after 2 days on 14 May 2071 at 03:24.
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 1.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1864" and ∠1899".
The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 882 of Meeus index or 1835 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 46 minutes and it is 1 hour and 42 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 3 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 11 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 ∠313.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠334°.
8 days since point of perigee on 3 May 2071 at 02:56 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 May 2071 at 23:14 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 384 444 km (238 882 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 116 km (251 727 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 10 May 2071 at 11:27 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 24 May 2071 at 23:39 in ♓ Pisces.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 3 May 2071 at 11:10 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.278° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.342° at the point of next southern standstill on 17 May 2071 at 00:17 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 14 May 2071 at 03:24 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