Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 23% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 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 ∠19° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 6 April 2027 at 23:51.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2027 after 9 days on 20 April 2027 at 22:27.
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 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1955" and ∠1914".
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 337 of Meeus index or 1290 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 7 minutes and it is 2 hours and 25 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 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 32 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 ∠278.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠308.6°.
11 days since point of apogee on 31 March 2027 at 01:33 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 14 April 2027 at 00:41 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 366 716 km (227 867 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 001 km (229 908 mi).
9 days after ascending node on 2 April 2027 at 10:17 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 15 April 2027 at 16:31 in ♌ Leo.
At 19:29 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠27.412°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-27.312° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 25 April 2027 at 01:45.
9 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 9 days on 20 April 2027 at 22:27 in ♎ Libra 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