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 ∠24° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 21 April 2031 at 16:57.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2031 after 13 days on 7 May 2031 at 03:40.
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 6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1796" and ∠1908".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 387 of Meeus index or 1340 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 20 minutes and it is 47 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 36 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 27 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 ∠106.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠139.8°.
11 days since point of perigee on 11 April 2031 at 19:13 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 27 April 2031 at 10:30 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 399 023 km (247 941 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 758 km (251 505 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♉ Taurus at 20:23 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 7 May 2031 at 22:55 in ♏ Scorpio.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 12 April 2031 at 00:31 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.160° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.107° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 April 2031 at 12:37 in ♊ Gemini.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 7 May 2031 at 03:40 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