Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 31% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 ∠12° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 7 April 2037 at 11:25.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2037 after 20 days on 29 April 2037 at 18:54.
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 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1915".
The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 460 of Meeus index or 1413 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 31 minutes and it is 2 hours and 44 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 47 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 16 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 ∠197.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠225.1°.
10 days since point of perigee on 30 March 2037 at 06:31 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 April 2037 at 13:04 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 402 868 km (250 331 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 679 km (252 077 mi).
1 day after descending node on 8 April 2037 at 21:20 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 23 April 2037 at 03:14 in ♌ Leo.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 6 April 2037 at 21:45 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.915° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.064° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 April 2037 at 11:52 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 15 April 2037 at 16:08 in ♈ Aries 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