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 ∠17° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 11 April 2074 at 18:30.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2074 after 23 days on 11 May 2074 at 02:17.
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 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1923" and ∠1911".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 918 of Meeus index or 1871 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 28 minutes and it is 31 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2074. 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 3 hours and 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 19 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 ∠144° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠170.1°.
4 days since point of perigee on 12 April 2074 at 14:37 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 27 April 2074 at 09:29 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 372 814 km (231 656 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 588 km (252 642 mi).
10 days after ascending node on 6 April 2074 at 16:25 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 19 April 2074 at 03:12 in ♒ Aquarius.
At 01:07 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-20.642°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠20.782° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 1 May 2074 at 15:56.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 26 April 2074 at 06:47 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