Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 16% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 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 ∠15° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 13 April 2048 at 05:20.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2048 after 10 days on 28 April 2048 at 11:13.
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 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1911".
The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 597 of Meeus index or 1550 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 38 minutes and it is 14 minutes shorter 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 2 hours and 54 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 9 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 ∠135.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠163°.
Moon is at apogee at 07:22 about 15 days since last perigee on 1 April 2048 at 10:10 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 29 April 2048 at 14:29 in ♏ Scorpio.
This apogee Moon is 405 534 km (251 987 mi) away from Earth. It is 126 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 175 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
12 days after ascending node on 4 April 2048 at 14:57 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 18 April 2048 at 16:39 in ♊ Gemini.
At 19:00 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.861°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.803° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 1 May 2048 at 02:39.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 28 April 2048 at 11:13 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