Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 86% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 18 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 ∠25° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 26 April 2097 at 12:09.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2097 after 25 days on 26 May 2097 at 03:36.
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 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1904".
The Moon is 18 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1203 of Meeus index or 2156 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 14 minutes and it is 1 hour and 40 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 30 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 39 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 ∠319.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠339.2°.
Moon is at apogee at 19:19 about 15 days since last perigee on 14 April 2097 at 21:49 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 13 May 2097 at 00:36 in ♊ Gemini.
This apogee Moon is 405 323 km (251 856 mi) away from Earth. It is 85 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 386 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
3 days after descending node on 26 April 2097 at 22:40 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 May 2097 at 03:30 in ♉ Taurus.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 17 April 2097 at 11:44 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.513° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-27.535° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 May 2097 at 12:40 in ♑ Capricorn.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 11 May 2097 at 18:40 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