Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 78% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 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 ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 8 April 2098 at 22:56.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2098 after 4 days on 15 April 2098 at 19:04.
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 2.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1914".
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1215 of Meeus index or 2168 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 45 minutes and it is 2 hours and 54 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 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 7 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 ∠260.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠294.5°.
Moon is at perigee at 03:38 about 15 days since last apogee on 26 March 2098 at 18:28 in ♑ Capricorn 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 23 April 2098 at 14:16 in ♑ Capricorn.
This perigee Moon is 368 775 km (229 146 mi) away from Earth. It is 6 267 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 1 581 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
8 days after ascending node on 2 April 2098 at 16:45 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 15 April 2098 at 14:53 in ♎ Libra.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 7 April 2098 at 20:47 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.320° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.319° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 April 2098 at 01:51 in ♑ Capricorn.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 4 days on 15 April 2098 at 19:04 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.
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