Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% 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 ∠7° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 6 May 2050 at 22:26.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2050 after 27 days on 5 June 2050 at 09:51.
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 1.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1878" and ∠1901".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 622 of Meeus index or 1575 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 25 minutes and it is 1 hour and 6 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 19 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 50 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 ∠41.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠69.6°.
7 days since point of apogee on 30 April 2050 at 15:11 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 May 2050 at 15:45 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 381 586 km (237 107 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 166 km (229 389 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 7 May 2050 at 06:21 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 May 2050 at 04:46 in ♉ Taurus.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 24 April 2050 at 21:53 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.497° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-20.489° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 May 2050 at 09:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 20 May 2050 at 20:51 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