Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Pink Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2010 after 7 days on 28 April 2010 at 12:18.
Neap tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1963"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1909".
Lunation 127 / 1080
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 127 of Meeus index or 1080 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 35 minutes and it is 2 hours and 25 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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 9 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠247.4°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠247.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠282.4°.
Moon before perigee
12 days since point of apogee on 9 April 2010 at 02:45 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 24 April 2010 at 20:59 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 365 059 km(226 837 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 142 km(228 131 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 20 April 2010 at 13:38 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 3 May 2010 at 12:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 18 April 2010 at 17:15 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.182° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.109° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 May 2010 at 14:01 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 7 days on 28 April 2010 at 12:18 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.