Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 92% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 17 April 2068 at 15:29.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2068 after 26 days on 17 May 2068 at 05:35.
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 2.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1854" and ∠1909".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 844 of Meeus index or 1797 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 16 minutes and it is 40 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 3 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 41 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 ∠19.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠39.5°.
7 days since point of apogee on 13 April 2068 at 09:52 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 29 April 2068 at 06:56 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 386 659 km (240 259 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 942 km (226 143 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 08:25 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 3 May 2068 at 04:02 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 6 April 2068 at 22:58 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.553° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-21.479° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 April 2068 at 14:15 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 08:25 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 11 days on 1 May 2068 at 18:07 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