Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 12% 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 first ∠2° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 29 April 2073 at 01:38.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2073 after 17 days on 21 May 2073 at 10:02.
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 7.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1903".
The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 906 of Meeus index or 1859 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 1 minute and it is 2 hours and 25 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 3 hours and 17 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 46 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 ∠192.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠218.1°.
Moon is at apogee at 14:50 about 12 days since last perigee on 21 April 2073 at 03:38 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 19 May 2073 at 08:24 in ♏ Scorpio.
This apogee Moon is 405 878 km (252 201 mi) away from Earth. It is 470 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 831 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
2 days after descending node on 30 April 2073 at 13:47 in ♒ Aquarius 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 14 May 2073 at 21:24 in ♌ Leo.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 26 April 2073 at 14:23 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.330° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.450° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 May 2073 at 06:50 in ♋ Cancer.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 3 days on 7 May 2073 at 06:15 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