Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 10% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 ∠9° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 2 May 2043 at 08:59.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2043 after 17 days on 23 May 2043 at 23:37.
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 2.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1951" and ∠1902".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 535 of Meeus index or 1488 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 15 minutes and it is 1 hour and 1 minute longer 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 4 hours and 29 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 40 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 ∠345.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠0.5°.
10 days since point of apogee on 25 April 2043 at 12:50 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 9 May 2043 at 02:32 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 367 311 km (228 236 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 136 km (221 914 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 11:10 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 19 May 2043 at 08:03 in ♎ Libra.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 29 April 2043 at 03:33 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.582° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.531° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 May 2043 at 00:03 in ♋ Cancer.
At 11:10 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 2 days on 9 May 2043 at 03:21 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