Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 88% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 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 ∠21° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 16 April 2081 at 17:31.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2081 after 2 days on 23 April 2081 at 10:20.
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 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1909".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1005 of Meeus index or 1958 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 54 minutes and it is 3 hours and 1 minute 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 1 hour and 10 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 53 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 ∠231.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠265.8°.
Moon is at perigee at 18:04 about 15 days since last apogee on 4 April 2081 at 19:49 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 2 May 2081 at 14:12 in ♒ Aquarius.
This perigee Moon is 364 640 km (226 577 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 132 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 5 716 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 16:02 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 4 May 2081 at 10:34 in ♓ Pisces.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 14 April 2081 at 16:08 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.586° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.521° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 April 2081 at 11:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 23 April 2081 at 10:20 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
