Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 97% 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 ∠10° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 7 April 2096 at 18:18.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2096 after 27 days on 7 May 2096 at 11:06.
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 8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1915".
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1190 of Meeus index or 2143 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 49 minutes and it is 57 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 3 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 14 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 ∠338.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠354.8°.
Moon is at apogee at 22:20 about 15 days since last perigee on 25 March 2096 at 15:09 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 23 April 2096 at 01:06 in ♉ Taurus.
This apogee Moon is 406 045 km (252 305 mi) away from Earth. It is 637 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 664 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
12 days after ascending node on 28 March 2096 at 05:08 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 11 April 2096 at 07:47 in ♐ Sagittarius.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 30 March 2096 at 20:57 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.167° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.278° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 April 2096 at 12:29 in ♑ Capricorn.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 22 April 2096 at 17:43 in ♈ Aries 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