Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
2 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 18 April 2072 at 11:57.
Flower Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2072 after 11 days on 2 May 2072 at 11:34.
Neap tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1869"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1869" and ∠1909".
Lunation 894 / 1847
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 894 of Meeus index or 1847 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 22 minutes and it is 2 hours and 43 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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 47 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠250.1°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠250.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠285°.
Moon after apogee
7 days since point of apogee on 12 April 2072 at 22:33 in ♒ Aquarius 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 28 April 2072 at 15:34 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 383 518 km(238 307 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 523 km(228 368 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 15 April 2072 at 04:07 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 28 April 2072 at 14:06 in ♍ Virgo.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 8 April 2072 at 21:40 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.355° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.447° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 April 2072 at 08:04 in ♋ Cancer.
In 11 days on 2 May 2072 at 11:34 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.