Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 14 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 passing first ∠1° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 7 days on 24 April 2007 at 06:36.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2007 after 1 day on 2 May 2007 at 10:09.
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 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1904".
The Moon is 14 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 90 of Meeus index or 1043 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 51 minutes and it is 5 minutes longer 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 4 hours and 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 16 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 ∠4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠19.8°.
1 day since point of apogee on 30 April 2007 at 10:57 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 May 2007 at 15:10 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 405 218 km (251 791 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 393 km (223 316 mi).
3 days after descending node on 27 April 2007 at 15:27 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 May 2007 at 23:08 in ♓ Pisces.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 21 April 2007 at 13:36 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.446° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.341° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 May 2007 at 04:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 2 May 2007 at 10:09 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