Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 ∠5° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 2 May 2032 at 16:02.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2032 after 16 days on 25 May 2032 at 02:37.
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 0.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1897" and ∠1901".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 399 of Meeus index or 1352 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 56 minutes and it is 1 hour 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 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 21 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 ∠44.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠73.2°.
4 days since point of perigee on 3 May 2032 at 20:49 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 May 2032 at 22:18 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 377 911 km (234 823 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 274 km (251 204 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♉ Taurus at 20:11 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 23 May 2032 at 06:27 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 28 April 2032 at 22:45 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.640° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.649° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 May 2032 at 22:35 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 1 day on 9 May 2032 at 13:36 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