Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
4 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 4 days on 19 April 2076 at 06:29.
Pink Moon before 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2076 after 25 days on 18 May 2076 at 17:38.
Moderate tide
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1947"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1947" and ∠1907".
Lunation 943 / 1896
The Moon is 19 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 943 of Meeus index or 1896 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 5 minutes and it is 1 hour and 17 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 40 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 30 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠48.3°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠48.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠78.4°.
Moon before perigee
11 days since point of apogee on 12 April 2076 at 11:48 in ♌ Leo 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 26 April 2076 at 16:30 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 368 061 km(228 703 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 856 km(229 818 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 11:30 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 6 May 2076 at 13:36 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 10 April 2076 at 09:56 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.071° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-24.184° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 April 2076 at 11:14 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 9 days on 3 May 2076 at 04:51 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.