Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 72% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 about ∠24° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 15 April 2073 at 10:36.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2073 after 4 days on 22 April 2073 at 01:54.
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 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1948" and ∠1911".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 906 of Meeus index or 1859 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 1 minute and it is 2 hours and 25 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 3 hours and 17 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 46 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠192.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠218.1°.
11 days since point of apogee on 6 April 2073 at 05:19 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 April 2073 at 03:38 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 367 944 km (228 630 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 345 km (222 665 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 19:11 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 30 April 2073 at 13:47 in ♒ Aquarius.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 14 April 2073 at 00:42 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.238° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.330° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 April 2073 at 14:23 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 19:11 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 4 days on 22 April 2073 at 01:54 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