Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 70% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 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 about ∠16° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 24 April 2005 at 10:06.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2005 after 24 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 3.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1905".
The Moon is 20 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°.
Moon is at perigee at 09:59 about 12 days since last apogee on 16 April 2005 at 18:41 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 14 May 2005 at 13:41 in ♋ Cancer.
This perigee Moon is 369 029 km (229 304 mi) away from Earth. It is 6 521 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 1 327 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
5 days after descending node on 23 April 2005 at 13:30 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 6 May 2005 at 10:56 in ♈ Aries.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 28 April 2005 at 15:55 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.359° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.317° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 May 2005 at 00:42 in ♋ Cancer.
20 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 8 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