Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 88% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
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.
Moon phases on nearby dates
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Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 29 April 2077 at 23:28.
Flower Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2077 after 3 days on 8 May 2077 at 02:23.
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 ∠1771"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1902".
Lunation 956 / 1909
The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 956 of Meeus index or 1909 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 18 minutes and it is 59 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 3 hours and 26 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 43 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠28°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠28° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠50.2°.
Moon after apogee
1 day since point of apogee on 3 May 2077 at 00:26 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 May 2077 at 19:58 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 404 810 km(251 537 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 235 km(227 568 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after ascending node on 25 April 2077 at 03:43 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 9 May 2077 at 15:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 27 April 2077 at 12:56 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.782° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.829° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 May 2077 at 02:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 3 days on 8 May 2077 at 02:23 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.