Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 72% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 ∠4° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 18 May 2097 at 09:14.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2097 after 5 days on 26 May 2097 at 03:36.
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 1.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1869" and ∠1896".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1204 of Meeus index or 2157 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 34 minutes and it is 50 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 5 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 59 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 ∠339.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠355.1°.
7 days since point of perigee on 13 May 2097 at 00:36 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 28 May 2097 at 05:57 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 383 409 km (238 239 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 101 km (252 339 mi).
9 days after ascending node on 11 May 2097 at 03:30 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 24 May 2097 at 05:04 in ♏ Scorpio.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 14 May 2097 at 19:24 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.518° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.488° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 May 2097 at 19:06 in ♑ Capricorn.
9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 26 May 2097 at 03:36 in ♐ Sagittarius 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