Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 78% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 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 first ∠0° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 19 April 2057 at 10:49.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2057 after 25 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 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1908".
The Moon is 19 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°.
2 days since point of perigee on 21 April 2057 at 04:54 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 May 2057 at 19:52 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 363 817 km (226 065 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 919 km (252 226 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 20:52 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 7 May 2057 at 22:16 in ♊ Gemini.
12 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 day to face maximum declination of ∠-23.505° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 April 2057 at 07:56 in ♑ Capricorn.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 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