Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 84% 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.
Slide horizontally to discover the moon phase on nearby dates.
Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 8 May 2098 at 04:21.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2098 after 3 days on 15 May 2098 at 07:16.
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 1.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1923" and ∠1899".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1216 of Meeus index or 2169 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 51 minutes and it is 2 hours and 8 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 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 16 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 ∠294.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠320.4°.
5 days since point of perigee on 6 May 2098 at 02:31 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 May 2098 at 09:03 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 372 689 km (231 578 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 550 km (251 376 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 30 April 2098 at 01:09 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 12 May 2098 at 22:21 in ♎ Libra.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 5 May 2098 at 02:37 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.285° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.237° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 May 2098 at 09:52 in ♑ Capricorn.
11 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 3 days on 15 May 2098 at 07:16 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