Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% 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 passing about ∠8° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 5 May 2082 at 19:04.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2082 after 1 day on 12 May 2082 at 09:49.
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 3.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1899".
The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1018 of Meeus index or 1971 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 45 minutes and it is 2 hours and 16 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 2 hours and 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 2 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 ∠203.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠231.3°.
Moon is at perigee at 00:30 about 15 days since last apogee on 25 April 2082 at 15:39 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next apogee on 23 May 2082 at 04:39 in ♈ Aries.
This perigee Moon is 359 931 km (223 651 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 577 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 425 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
4 days after descending node on 7 May 2082 at 01:12 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 19 May 2082 at 18:38 in ♒ Aquarius.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 1 May 2082 at 23:20 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.970° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.907° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 May 2082 at 17:09 in ♐ Sagittarius.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 12 May 2082 at 09:49 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