Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 15% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 days young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 25 April 2009 at 03:23.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2009 after 10 days on 9 May 2009 at 04:01.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1905".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 115 of Meeus index or 1068 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 48 minutes and it is 1 hour and 24 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 56 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 13 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 ∠311.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠332.7°.
Moon is at perigee at 06:26 about 11 days since last apogee on 16 April 2009 at 09:15 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 14 May 2009 at 02:57 in ♑ Capricorn.
This perigee Moon is 366 042 km (227 448 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 534 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 4 314 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
10 days after ascending node on 18 April 2009 at 05:19 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 1 May 2009 at 07:50 in ♌ Leo.
At 08:50 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.567°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.486° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 11 May 2009 at 20:03.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 9 May 2009 at 04:01 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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