Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 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 first ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 27 April 2044 at 19:42.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2044 after 12 days on 12 May 2044 at 00:16.
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 3.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1905".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 548 of Meeus index or 1501 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 57 minutes and it is 1 hour and 12 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 4 hours and 47 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 22 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 ∠328.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠345.6°.
Moon is at perigee at 18:30 about 11 days since last apogee on 17 April 2044 at 20:46 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 15 May 2044 at 11:19 in ♑ Capricorn.
This perigee Moon is 362 200 km (225 061 mi) away from Earth. It is 308 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 8 156 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
5 days after ascending node on 24 April 2044 at 08:06 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 6 May 2044 at 23:24 in ♍ Virgo.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 17 April 2044 at 18:10 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.526° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠28.450° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 May 2044 at 05:01 in ♊ Gemini.
5 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 12 May 2044 at 00:16 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