Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day young.
The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 26 April 2074 at 06:47.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2074 after 13 days on 11 May 2074 at 02:17.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1906".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 919 of Meeus index or 1872 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 57 minutes and it is 1 hour and 3 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 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 50 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 ∠170.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠193.2°.
Moon is at apogee at 09:29 about 14 days since last perigee on 12 April 2074 at 14:37 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 11 May 2074 at 01:01 in ♏ Scorpio.
This apogee Moon is 406 588 km (252 642 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2074. It is 1 180 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 121 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
8 days after descending node on 19 April 2074 at 03:12 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 3 May 2074 at 18:36 in ♌ Leo.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 17 April 2074 at 01:07 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.642° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.782° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 May 2074 at 15:56 in ♋ Cancer.
20 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 13 days on 11 May 2074 at 02:17 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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