Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 71% 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 about ∠20° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 28 April 2086 at 22:35.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2086 after 24 days on 28 May 2086 at 12:35.
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 0.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1910" and ∠1902".
The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1067 of Meeus index or 2020 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 48 minutes and it is 43 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2086. 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 3 hours and 56 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 13 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 ∠18.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠37.1°.
9 days since point of apogee on 24 April 2086 at 22:37 in ♍ Virgo 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 10 May 2086 at 18:33 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 375 199 km (233 138 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 362 km (225 783 mi).
2 days after ascending node on 1 May 2086 at 17:00 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 14 May 2086 at 12:33 in ♊ Gemini.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 2 May 2086 at 01:28 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.482° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.466° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 May 2086 at 20:32 in ♊ Gemini.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 13 May 2086 at 01:41 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