Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 86% 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.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 28 April 2099 at 01:36.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2099 after 3 days on 4 May 2099 at 17:58.
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 3.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1904".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1228 of Meeus index or 2181 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 47 minutes and it is 2 hours and 53 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 hour and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours 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 ∠227.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠261.4°.
15 days since point of apogee on 16 April 2099 at 08:34 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 May 2099 at 05:55 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 363 736 km (226 015 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 037 km (226 202 mi).
12 days after ascending node on 18 April 2099 at 13:19 in ♓ Pisces 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 2 May 2099 at 00:59 in ♎ Libra.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 25 April 2099 at 08:16 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.599° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.539° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 May 2099 at 02:14 in ♑ Capricorn.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 4 May 2099 at 17:58 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