Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 96% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 16 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 ∠15° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 9 May 2085 at 16:04.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2085 after 27 days on 8 June 2085 at 02:02.
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% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1918" and ∠1899".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1055 of Meeus index or 2008 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 24 minutes and it is 1 hour and 31 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 1 hour and 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 49 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 ∠60.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠94.1°.
9 days since point of apogee on 2 May 2085 at 03:39 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 14 May 2085 at 22:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 373 708 km (232 211 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 231 km (229 430 mi).
12 days after descending node on 28 April 2085 at 14:50 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 12 May 2085 at 17:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 18:51 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-24.138°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠24.116° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 24 May 2085 at 19:41.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 23 May 2085 at 14:23 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