Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 98% 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 ∠5° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 6 April 2088 at 00:59.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2088 after 28 days on 5 May 2088 at 16:25.
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 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1792" and ∠1916".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1091 of Meeus index or 2044 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 24 minutes and it is 2 hours longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 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 ∠309.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠331.3°.
12 days since point of perigee on 26 March 2088 at 07:42 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 April 2088 at 05:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 400 045 km (248 576 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 923 km (251 607 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 14:55 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 21 April 2088 at 17:47 in ♈ Aries.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 28 March 2088 at 10:38 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.444° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.390° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 April 2088 at 07:55 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 14:55 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 13 days on 21 April 2088 at 10:25 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