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 first ∠0° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 8 April 2064 at 14:25.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2064 after 16 days on 1 May 2064 at 02:08.
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 7.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1912".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 794 of Meeus index or 1747 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 17 minutes and it is 2 hours and 24 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 33 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 30 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠181.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠206.1°.
Moon is at apogee at 02:09 about 12 days since last perigee on 1 April 2064 at 05:29 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 29 April 2064 at 13:49 in ♎ Libra.
This apogee Moon is 406 249 km (252 431 mi) away from Earth. It is 841 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 460 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
3 days after ascending node on 11 April 2064 at 08:46 in ♒ Aquarius 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 25 April 2064 at 16:11 in ♌ Leo.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 6 April 2064 at 15:48 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.645° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.520° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 April 2064 at 08:45 in ♊ Gemini.
3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 16 April 2064 at 19:02 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