Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 33% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 15 April 2001 at 15:31.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2001 after 20 days on 7 May 2001 at 13:53.
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 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1911".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 15 of Meeus index or 968 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 5 minutes and it is 2 hours and 45 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 hour and 21 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 42 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 ∠232.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠267.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 06:06 about 11 days since last perigee on 5 April 2001 at 10:04 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 2 May 2001 at 03:37 in ♍ Virgo.
This apogee Moon is 404 501 km (251 345 mi) away from Earth. It is 907 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 208 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
3 days after descending node on 14 April 2001 at 06:52 in ♑ Capricorn 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 28 April 2001 at 09:43 in ♋ Cancer.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 14 April 2001 at 11:36 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.123° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.248° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 April 2001 at 16:18 in ♋ Cancer.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 23 April 2001 at 15:26 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