Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% 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 ∠24° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 28 April 2048 at 11:13.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2048 after 28 days on 27 May 2048 at 18:57.
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 3.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" 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 597 of Meeus index or 1550 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 38 minutes and it is 14 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 54 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 9 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 ∠135.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠163°.
Moon is at perigee at 14:29 about 12 days since last apogee on 17 April 2048 at 07:22 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 14 May 2048 at 17:19 in ♊ Gemini.
This perigee Moon is 359 129 km (223 152 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 379 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 227 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
10 days after descending node on 18 April 2048 at 16:39 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 1 May 2048 at 18:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 17 April 2048 at 19:00 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.861° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-23.803° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 May 2048 at 02:39 in ♐ Sagittarius.
24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 12 May 2048 at 20:58 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
