Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 82% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
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.
Moon phases on nearby dates
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Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 6 April 2082 at 09:02.
Pink Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2082 after 3 days on 13 April 2082 at 01:45.
Neap tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1949"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1949" and ∠1915".
Lunation 1017 / 1970
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1017 of Meeus index or 1970 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 57 minutes and it is 2 hours and 12 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 50 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠179.1°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠179.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠203.1°.
Moon before perigee
11 days since point of apogee on 29 March 2082 at 11:30 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 April 2082 at 15:53 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 367 865 km(228 581 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 104 km(221 894 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 20:43 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 22 April 2082 at 17:02 in ♒ Aquarius.
4 days since the last northern standstill on 4 April 2082 at 18:02 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.159° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.081° at the point of next southern standstill on 17 April 2082 at 07:41 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 3 days on 13 April 2082 at 01:45 in ♎ Libra 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.