Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 88% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 ∠5° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 10 April 2085 at 03:41.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2085 after 26 days on 9 May 2085 at 16:04.
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 0.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1907" and ∠1913".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1054 of Meeus index or 2007 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 22 minutes and it is 1 hour and 2 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 47 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠35.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠60.6°.
9 days since point of apogee on 4 April 2085 at 08:13 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 April 2085 at 21:32 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 375 923 km (233 588 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 250 km (228 820 mi).
12 days after descending node on 1 April 2085 at 11:26 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 April 2085 at 15:03 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 31 March 2085 at 03:08 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.388° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-24.266° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 April 2085 at 12:50 in ♐ Sagittarius.
24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 24 April 2085 at 02:59 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