Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 94% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 17 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 17 April 2087 at 23:17.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2087 after 27 days on 17 May 2087 at 15:55.
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 7.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1909".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1079 of Meeus index or 2032 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 25 minutes and it is 37 minutes longer 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 4 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 50 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 ∠347.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠3.2°.
1 day since point of apogee on 18 April 2087 at 16:59 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 May 2087 at 13:16 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 403 875 km (250 956 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 231 km (221 973 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 05:56 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 3 May 2087 at 13:34 in ♉ Taurus.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 7 April 2087 at 18:11 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.888° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-20.818° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 April 2087 at 05:30 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 05:56 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 12 days on 2 May 2087 at 17:51 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