Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 86% 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 27 April 2059 at 19:17.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2059 after 25 days on 27 May 2059 at 08:04.
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 0.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1901" and ∠1904".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 733 of Meeus index or 1686 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 47 minutes and it is 55 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 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 12 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 ∠30° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠53.2°.
8 days since point of apogee on 22 April 2059 at 12:03 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 May 2059 at 06:41 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 377 060 km (234 294 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 831 km (227 938 mi).
2 days after descending node on 29 April 2059 at 07:01 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 12 May 2059 at 04:37 in ♉ Taurus.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 17 April 2059 at 23:41 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.607° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-26.654° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 May 2059 at 11:32 in ♑ Capricorn.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 11 May 2059 at 19:15 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