Waning Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 69% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 20 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 ∠9° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 15 April 2098 at 19:04.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2098 after 23 days on 15 May 2098 at 07:16.
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 7.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1777" and ∠1909".
The Moon is 20 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1215 of Meeus index or 2168 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 45 minutes and it is 2 hours and 54 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 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 7 hours and 2 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠260.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠294.5°.
10 days since point of perigee on 11 April 2098 at 03:38 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 April 2098 at 14:16 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 403 374 km (250 645 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 262 km (251 197 mi).
5 days after descending node on 15 April 2098 at 14:53 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 30 April 2098 at 01:09 in ♈ Aries.
At 01:51 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.319°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.285° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 5 May 2098 at 02:37.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 1 May 2098 at 08:32 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