Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 13% 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 ∠13° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 10 May 2072 at 03:17.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2072 after 17 days on 31 May 2072 at 22:18.
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 5.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1797" 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 894 of Meeus index or 1847 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 22 minutes and it is 2 hours and 43 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 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 47 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 ∠250.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠285°.
3 days since point of apogee on 10 May 2072 at 17:48 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 May 2072 at 23:46 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 398 807 km (247 807 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 656 km (229 694 mi).
2 days after descending node on 12 May 2072 at 08:23 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 25 May 2072 at 15:57 in ♍ Virgo.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 6 May 2072 at 07:01 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.526° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.609° at the point of next northern standstill on 20 May 2072 at 14:55 in ♊ Gemini.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 18 May 2072 at 00:18 in ♊ Gemini 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