Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 3% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 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 passing about ∠21° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 20 April 2061 at 03:04.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2061 after 13 days on 4 May 2061 at 14:13.
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 ∠1972" and ∠1909".
The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 758 of Meeus index or 1711 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 58 minutes and it is 58 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 4 hours and 46 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 23 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 ∠343.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠358.7°.
Moon is at perigee at 03:02 about 12 days since last apogee on 8 April 2061 at 18:12 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 6 May 2061 at 02:42 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This perigee Moon is 358 852 km (222 980 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 656 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 504 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
2 days after ascending node on 19 April 2061 at 10:03 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 2 May 2061 at 12:29 in ♎ Libra.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 11 April 2061 at 10:51 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.439° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.417° at the point of next northern standstill on 24 April 2061 at 08:45 in ♋ Cancer.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 4 May 2061 at 14:13 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