Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 14 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 ∠3° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 29 March 2099 at 17:38.
Pink Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2099 after 1 day on 5 April 2099 at 08:37.
Moderate tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1966"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1918".
Lunation 1227 / 2180
The Moon is 14 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1227 of Meeus index or 2180 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 43 minutes and it is 2 hours and 56 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 3 hours and 59 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 4 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠199.5°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠199.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠227.5°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 03:23 about 15 days since last apogee on 19 March 2099 at 19:55 in ♓ Pisces 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 16 April 2099 at 08:34 in ♓ Pisces.
This perigee Moon is 359 339 km(223 283 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 169 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 017 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 16:08 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 18 April 2099 at 13:19 in ♓ Pisces.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 29 March 2099 at 02:47 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.678° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.656° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 April 2099 at 17:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 1 day on 5 April 2099 at 08:37 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.