Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 ∠22° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 28 April 2010 at 12:18.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2010 after 28 days on 27 May 2010 at 23:07.
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 1.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1875" and ∠1905".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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°).
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.
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°.
4 days since point of perigee on 24 April 2010 at 20:59 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 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 May 2010 at 21:53 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 382 355 km (237 584 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 231 km (251 177 mi).
8 days after descending node on 20 April 2010 at 13:38 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 3 May 2010 at 12:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
10 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 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.109° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 May 2010 at 14:01 in ♐ Sagittarius.
23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 14 days on 14 May 2010 at 01:04 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