Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 95% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 24 April 2005 at 10:06.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2005 after 27 days on 23 May 2005 at 20:18.
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 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1926" and ∠1906".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 65 of Meeus index or 1018 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 13 minutes and it is 57 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 38 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 ∠62.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠96.6°.
9 days since point of apogee on 16 April 2005 at 18:41 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 29 April 2005 at 09:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 372 157 km (231 248 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 029 km (229 304 mi).
2 days after descending node on 23 April 2005 at 13:30 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 6 May 2005 at 10:56 in ♈ Aries.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 14 April 2005 at 16:38 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.381° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.359° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 April 2005 at 15:55 in ♐ Sagittarius.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 8 May 2005 at 08:45 in ♉ Taurus 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