Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 30% 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 ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 26 April 2036 at 09:33.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2036 after 8 days on 10 May 2036 at 08:09.
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 3.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1904".
The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 449 of Meeus index or 1402 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 44 minutes and it is 1 hour and 51 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 shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 9 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 ∠292.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠318.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 08:26 about 12 days since last apogee on 18 April 2036 at 17:40 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 16 May 2036 at 12:41 in ♒ Aquarius.
This perigee Moon is 369 111 km (229 355 mi) away from Earth. It is 6 603 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 1 245 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
10 days after descending node on 20 April 2036 at 16:14 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 3 May 2036 at 21:32 in ♌ Leo.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 30 April 2036 at 19:06 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.658° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.758° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 May 2036 at 05:17 in ♑ Capricorn.
24 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 8 days on 10 May 2036 at 08:09 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