Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 85% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 ∠17° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 18 April 2049 at 01:04.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2049 after 25 days on 17 May 2049 at 11:13.
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 2.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1956" and ∠1909".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 609 of Meeus index or 1562 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 32 minutes and it is 1 hour and 17 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 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 57 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 ∠67° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠102.4°.
11 days since point of apogee on 10 April 2049 at 03:32 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 22 April 2049 at 11:15 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 366 428 km (227 688 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 462 km (228 952 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 20 April 2049 at 23:57 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 4 May 2049 at 04:33 in ♊ Gemini.
At 13:59 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-22.138°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠22.094° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 4 May 2049 at 21:27.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 2 May 2049 at 00:11 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