Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 60% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 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 ∠20° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 6 days on 14 April 2071 at 13:56.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2071 after 22 days on 14 May 2071 at 03:24.
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 7.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1909".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 881 of Meeus index or 1834 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 27 minutes and it is 2 hours and 41 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 17 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 52 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 ∠284.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠313.2°.
Moon is at apogee at 05:51 about 14 days since last perigee on 6 April 2071 at 18:12 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next perigee on 3 May 2071 at 02:56 in ♊ Gemini.
This apogee Moon is 404 395 km (251 279 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 013 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 314 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
8 days after ascending node on 13 April 2071 at 06:06 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 27 April 2071 at 16:52 in ♈ Aries.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 19 April 2071 at 15:59 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.219° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.278° at the point of next northern standstill on 3 May 2071 at 11:10 in ♊ Gemini.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 30 April 2071 at 02:30 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