Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 3 May 2040 at 20:00.
Flower Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2040 after 20 days on 26 May 2040 at 11:47.
Moderate tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1933"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1933" and ∠1902".
Lunation 498 / 1451
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 498 of Meeus index or 1451 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 28 minutes and it is 1 hour and 7 minutes shorter 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 19 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠86°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠86° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠122.1°.
Moon after perigee
5 days since point of perigee on 30 April 2040 at 04:22 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 May 2040 at 01:01 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 370 736 km(230 365 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 171 km(251 762 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 28 April 2040 at 22:56 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 12 May 2040 at 04:05 in ♊ Gemini.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 1 May 2040 at 10:16 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.155° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.185° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 May 2040 at 03:53 in ♋ Cancer.
In 5 days on 11 May 2040 at 03:28 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.