Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 8% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 ∠21° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 8 May 2064 at 06:16.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2064 after 16 days on 30 May 2064 at 10:36.
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 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1773" and ∠1898".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 795 of Meeus index or 1748 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 53 minutes and it is 2 hours and 27 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 9 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 54 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 ∠206.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠235.2°.
1 day since point of apogee on 11 May 2064 at 16:10 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 27 May 2064 at 12:05 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 404 294 km (251 217 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 280 km (226 974 mi).
5 days after ascending node on 8 May 2064 at 10:23 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 22 May 2064 at 17:02 in ♌ Leo.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 4 May 2064 at 00:57 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.444° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.360° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 May 2064 at 13:54 in ♊ Gemini.
5 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 May 2064 at 09:55 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