Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 16% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 1 May 2062 at 18:33.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2062 after 17 days on 23 May 2062 at 07:03.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1850" and ∠1902".
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 770 of Meeus index or 1723 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 6 minutes and it is 2 hours and 17 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 2 hours and 38 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 31 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 ∠301.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠325.7°.
6 days since point of apogee on 29 April 2062 at 08:55 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 11 May 2062 at 06:10 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 387 514 km (240 790 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 785 km (225 424 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 16:29 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 18 May 2062 at 08:14 in ♍ Virgo.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 28 April 2062 at 07:22 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.595° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.528° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 May 2062 at 22:52 in ♊ Gemini.
At 16:29 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 3 days on 9 May 2062 at 03:22 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