Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% 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 ∠12° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 6 May 2069 at 09:11.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2069 after 27 days on 5 June 2069 at 00:19.
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 5.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1799" and ∠1900".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last 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°.
4 days since point of apogee on 4 May 2069 at 05:38 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 May 2069 at 12:00 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 398 497 km (247 615 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 730 km (223 526 mi).
2 days after ascending node on 6 May 2069 at 03:49 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 19 May 2069 at 15:35 in ♉ Taurus.
13 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 day to face maximum declination of ∠-19.911° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 May 2069 at 03:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 20 May 2069 at 18:06 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