Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 5% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ∠25° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 4 April 2002 at 15:29.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2002 after 16 days on 27 April 2002 at 03:00.
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 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 27 of Meeus index or 980 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 19 minutes and it is 1 hour and 55 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 35 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 28 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 ∠180.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠204.7°.
Moon is at apogee at 05:32 about 12 days since last perigee on 28 March 2002 at 07:42 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 25 April 2002 at 16:25 in ♎ Libra.
This apogee Moon is 406 409 km (252 531 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 001 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 300 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
7 days after descending node on 2 April 2002 at 18:20 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 April 2002 at 09:15 in ♊ Gemini.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 4 April 2002 at 08:23 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.771° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.908° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 April 2002 at 02:11 in ♋ Cancer.
20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 12 April 2002 at 19:21 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