Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 94% 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 about ∠16° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 3 April 2034 at 19:19.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2034 after 27 days on 3 May 2034 at 12:16.
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 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1917".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 423 of Meeus index or 1376 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 11 minutes and it is 1 hour and 24 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 3 hours and 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 36 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 ∠337.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠353.9°.
Moon is at apogee at 03:44 about 15 days since last perigee on 21 March 2034 at 18:12 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 19 April 2034 at 04:07 in ♉ Taurus.
This apogee Moon is 406 054 km (252 310 mi) away from Earth. It is 646 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 655 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
3 days after ascending node on 2 April 2034 at 21:12 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 17 April 2034 at 02:12 in ♈ Aries.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 26 March 2034 at 12:34 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.139° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.168° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 April 2034 at 02:35 in ♐ Sagittarius.
3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 18 April 2034 at 19:26 in ♈ Aries 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