Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 32% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 6 days 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 ∠10° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 15 April 2075 at 08:55.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2075 after 9 days on 30 April 2075 at 18:37.
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 7.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1909".
The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 931 of Meeus index or 1884 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 27 minutes and it is 50 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 43 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 20 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 ∠113.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠145.4°.
1 day since point of apogee on 20 April 2075 at 18:02 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 May 2075 at 16:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 405 029 km (251 673 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 942 km (224 900 mi).
13 days after descending node on 8 April 2075 at 04:27 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 22 April 2075 at 03:55 in ♋ Cancer.
At 16:04 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠22.404°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.503° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 4 May 2075 at 22:18.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 9 days on 30 April 2075 at 18:37 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