Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day 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 ∠12° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 12 May 2048 at 20:58.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2048 after 13 days on 27 May 2048 at 18:57.
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 7.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1898".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 598 of Meeus index or 1551 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 52 minutes and it is 38 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2048. 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 3 hours and 8 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 55 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 ∠163° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠186.1°.
Moon is at apogee at 17:19 about 15 days since last perigee on 29 April 2048 at 14:29 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 27 May 2048 at 23:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This apogee Moon is 406 299 km (252 462 mi) away from Earth. It is 891 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 410 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
12 days after ascending node on 1 May 2048 at 18:46 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 15 May 2048 at 20:07 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the last southern standstill on 1 May 2048 at 02:39 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.803° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠23.751° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 May 2048 at 00:49 in ♊ Gemini.
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 13 days on 27 May 2048 at 18:57 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