Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 32% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 ∠22° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 18 April 2036 at 14:06.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2036 after 19 days on 10 May 2036 at 08:09.
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 ∠1774" and ∠1909".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 448 of Meeus index or 1401 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 36 minutes and it is 2 hours and 52 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 8 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 1 minute 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 ∠258.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠292.8°.
1 day since point of apogee on 18 April 2036 at 17:40 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 May 2036 at 08:26 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 403 927 km (250 989 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 111 km (229 355 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♒ Aquarius at 16:14 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 3 May 2036 at 21:32 in ♌ Leo.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 16 April 2036 at 20:29 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.540° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.658° at the point of next northern standstill on 30 April 2036 at 19:06 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 26 April 2036 at 09:33 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