Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 about ∠6° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 3 May 2051 at 19:30.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2051 after 16 days on 25 May 2051 at 17:35.
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 3.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1900".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 634 of Meeus index or 1587 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 30 minutes and it is 3 minutes longer 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 4 hours and 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 55 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 ∠6.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠23.1°.
Moon is at perigee at 01:26 about 15 days since last apogee on 23 April 2051 at 15:59 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next apogee on 21 May 2051 at 04:56 in ♎ Libra.
This perigee Moon is 360 140 km (223 781 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 368 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 10 216 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♉ Taurus at 06:46 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 23 May 2051 at 02:03 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 29 April 2051 at 20:50 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.162° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.181° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 May 2051 at 15:20 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 10 May 2051 at 10:29 in ♉ Taurus 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
