Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 78% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 19 April 2038 at 10:36.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2038 after 25 days on 18 May 2038 at 18:23.
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 0.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1912" and ∠1908".
The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 473 of Meeus index or 1426 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 37 minutes and it is 1 hour and 32 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 53 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 10 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠175.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠198.9°.
4 days since point of perigee on 19 April 2038 at 04:30 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 May 2038 at 08:35 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 374 893 km (232 948 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 509 km (252 593 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 12 April 2038 at 01:27 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 24 April 2038 at 11:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 11 April 2038 at 21:03 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.706° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-22.806° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 April 2038 at 09:38 in ♑ Capricorn.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 4 May 2038 at 09:19 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