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Moon phase on 22 April 2056 Saturday is Waxing Crescent, 7 days young Moon is in Cancer.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 44% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 7 days on 14 April 2056 at 23:50.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1855" and ∠1908".
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2056 after 7 days on 29 April 2056 at 18:31.
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.
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 696 of Meeus index or 1649 from Brown series.
Length of current 696 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 16 minutes. It is 1 hour and 18 minutes longer than next lunation 697 length.
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 32 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 31 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠172.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠196°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
6 days after point of apogee on 15 April 2056 at 19:35 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 29 April 2056 at 14:48 in ♏ Scorpio.
Moon is 386 373 km (240 081 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 7 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 356 811 km (221 712 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 10:02 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 12 days to meet descending node on 4 May 2056 at 20:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 10:02 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
1 day after previous North standstill on 21 April 2056 at 07:19 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠21.717°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-21.812° in the next southern standstill on 3 May 2056 at 22:04 in ♑ Capricorn.
After 7 days on 29 April 2056 at 18:31 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.