Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 93% 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 passing about ∠20° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 2 days on 5 May 2088 at 16:25.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2088 after 26 days on 4 June 2088 at 08:08.
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 7.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1900".
The Moon is 17 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1092 of Meeus index or 2045 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 24 minutes and it is 1 hour and 19 minutes 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 4 hours and 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour 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 ∠331.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠348.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 19:11 about 15 days since last perigee on 23 April 2088 at 04:05 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 21 May 2088 at 11:25 in ♊ Gemini.
This apogee Moon is 405 804 km (252 155 mi) away from Earth. It is 396 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 905 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
3 days after ascending node on 4 May 2088 at 21:55 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 19 May 2088 at 04:20 in ♉ Taurus.
At 14:54 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-19.393°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠19.414° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 22 May 2088 at 03:13.
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 12 days on 20 May 2088 at 18:49 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