Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 24% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 13 April 2048 at 05:20.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2048 after 9 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 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1910".
The Moon is 5 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°.
1 day since point of apogee on 17 April 2048 at 07:22 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 29 April 2048 at 14:29 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 404 414 km (251 291 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 129 km (223 152 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 16:39 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 1 May 2048 at 18:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 17 April 2048 at 19:00 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.861° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.803° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 May 2048 at 02:39 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 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