Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 70% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 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 first ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 10 April 2085 at 03:41.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2085 after 24 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 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1947" and ∠1912".
The Moon is 20 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°.
11 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 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 April 2085 at 21:32 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 368 177 km (228 775 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 250 km (228 820 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 15:03 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 28 April 2085 at 14:50 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 14 April 2085 at 12:50 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.266° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.188° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 April 2085 at 11:39 in ♊ Gemini.
At 15:03 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 8 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