Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 5% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ∠24° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 5 April 2059 at 18:46.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2059 after 17 days on 27 April 2059 at 19:17.
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 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1915".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 732 of Meeus index or 1685 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 23 minutes and it is 24 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2059. 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 3 hours and 21 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 48 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 ∠12.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠30°.
Moon is at perigee at 13:47 about 15 days since last apogee on 25 March 2059 at 20:15 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 22 April 2059 at 12:03 in ♍ Virgo.
This perigee Moon is 361 666 km (224 729 mi) away from Earth. It is 842 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 8 690 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
8 days after descending node on 2 April 2059 at 02:16 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 14 April 2059 at 19:11 in ♉ Taurus.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 5 April 2059 at 06:01 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.541° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.607° at the point of next northern standstill on 17 April 2059 at 23:41 in ♋ Cancer.
22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 12 April 2059 at 09:28 in ♈ Aries 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