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 ∠15° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 19 April 2057 at 10:49.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2057 after 28 days on 18 May 2057 at 19:02.
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 2.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1959" and ∠1909".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 708 of Meeus index or 1661 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 1 minute and it is 38 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 17 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 46 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 ∠117° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠148.6°.
11 days since point of apogee on 9 April 2057 at 05:48 in ♊ Gemini 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 21 April 2057 at 04:54 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 365 868 km (227 340 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 376 km (224 549 mi).
9 days after ascending node on 10 April 2057 at 19:48 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 23 April 2057 at 20:52 in ♐ Sagittarius.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 11 April 2057 at 06:46 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.399° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.505° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 April 2057 at 07:56 in ♑ Capricorn.
9 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 13 days on 3 May 2057 at 16:32 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