Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 39% 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 first ∠4° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 9 April 2045 at 07:52.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2045 after 20 days on 1 May 2045 at 05:52.
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 8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1915".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 559 of Meeus index or 1512 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 12 minutes and it is 3 hours 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 1 hour and 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 35 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 ∠238.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠274.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 13:48 about 11 days since last perigee on 29 March 2045 at 17:25 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 24 April 2045 at 22:26 in ♌ Leo.
This apogee Moon is 404 371 km (251 264 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 037 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 338 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
11 days after descending node on 29 March 2045 at 22:04 in ♌ Leo 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 12 April 2045 at 18:23 in ♒ Aquarius.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 7 April 2045 at 06:59 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.012° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.903° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 April 2045 at 12:18 in ♊ Gemini.
24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 17 April 2045 at 07:27 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
