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Moon* ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 1% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 1% and getting smaller. The 28 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 23 April 2003 at 12:18.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon in ♈ Aries
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1905".
Flower Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2003 after 15 days on 16 May 2003 at 03:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 1 May 2003 at 12:15
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 9 May 2003 at 11:53
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 16 May 2003 at 03:36
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 23 May 2003 at 00:31
Moderate tide
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.
Lunation 40 / 993
The Moon is 28 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 40 of Meeus index or 993 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.71 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 56 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2003. It is 51 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 12 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 51 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠157.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠157.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠181.7°.
Moon before perigee
13 days after point of perigee on 17 April 2003 at 04:58 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 May 2003 at 07:39 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 405 143 km
The Moon is 405 143 km (251 744 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 530 km (252 606 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 19 April 2003 at 00:24 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 3 May 2003 at 02:17 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
24 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 21 April 2003 at 17:59 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.442°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.496° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 May 2003 at 09:48 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 1 May 2003 at 12:15 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.
