Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 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 ∠5° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 2 May 2030 at 14:12.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2030 after 12 days on 17 May 2030 at 11:19.
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 7.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1903".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 375 of Meeus index or 1328 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 9 minutes and it is 56 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 longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 38 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 ∠165.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠189°.
Moon is at apogee at 03:39 about 14 days since last perigee on 19 April 2030 at 03:44 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 17 May 2030 at 13:45 in ♏ Scorpio.
This apogee Moon is 406 364 km (252 503 mi) away from Earth. It is 956 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 345 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
13 days after ascending node on 21 April 2030 at 09:46 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 5 May 2030 at 11:55 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the last southern standstill on 21 April 2030 at 11:15 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.812° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠22.748° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 May 2030 at 14:44 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 17 May 2030 at 11:19 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