Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 74% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 19 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 ∠23° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 6 April 2088 at 00:59.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2088 after 24 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 7.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1914".
The Moon is 19 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°.
Moon is at apogee at 05:21 about 15 days since last perigee on 26 March 2088 at 07:42 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next perigee on 23 April 2088 at 04:05 in ♉ Taurus.
This apogee Moon is 404 923 km (251 607 mi) away from Earth. It is 485 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 786 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
3 days after ascending node on 7 April 2088 at 14:55 in ♏ Scorpio 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 21 April 2088 at 17:47 in ♈ Aries.
At 07:55 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-19.390°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠19.385° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 24 April 2088 at 17:34.
3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 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