Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 87% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 days young.
The moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 28 April 2069 at 05:56.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2069 after 3 days on 6 May 2069 at 09:11.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1776" and ∠1903".
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 857 of Meeus index or 1810 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 7 minutes and it is 1 minute shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2069. 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 4 hours and 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 32 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 ∠4.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠21°.
11 days since point of perigee on 21 April 2069 at 02:57 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 4 May 2069 at 05:38 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 403 526 km (250 739 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 134 km (252 360 mi).
10 days after descending node on 22 April 2069 at 04:46 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 6 May 2069 at 03:49 in ♏ Scorpio.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 24 April 2069 at 15:22 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.914° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.911° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 May 2069 at 03:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.
23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 6 May 2069 at 09:11 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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