Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 6% 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 ∠7° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 19 April 2017 at 09:57.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2017 after 16 days on 10 May 2017 at 21:43.
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 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1921" and ∠1907".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 213 of Meeus index or 1166 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 19 minutes and it is 1 hour and 51 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 25 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 44 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 ∠321.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠340.4°.
9 days since point of apogee on 15 April 2017 at 10:05 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 27 April 2017 at 16:18 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 373 165 km (231 874 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 325 km (223 274 mi).
2 days after descending node on 21 April 2017 at 22:30 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 4 May 2017 at 10:42 in ♍ Virgo.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 17 April 2017 at 13:12 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.095° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.187° at the point of next northern standstill on 30 April 2017 at 13:33 in ♊ Gemini.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 26 April 2017 at 12:16 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