Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 87% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 days old.
The moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 8 April 2001 at 03:22.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2001 after 26 days on 7 May 2001 at 13:53.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1838" and ∠1914".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 15 of Meeus index or 968 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 5 minutes and it is 2 hours and 45 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 21 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 42 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 ∠232.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠267.3°.
6 days since point of perigee on 5 April 2001 at 10:04 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 April 2001 at 06:06 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 389 935 km (242 294 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 501 km (251 345 mi).
10 days after ascending node on 1 April 2001 at 09:01 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 14 April 2001 at 06:52 in ♑ Capricorn.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 1 April 2001 at 10:45 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.007° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.123° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 April 2001 at 11:36 in ♑ Capricorn.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 23 April 2001 at 15:26 in ♈ Aries the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth 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