Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 6% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ∠8° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 19 April 2082 at 21:46.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2082 after 16 days on 12 May 2082 at 09:49.
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 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1907".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1017 of Meeus index or 1970 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 57 minutes and it is 2 hours and 12 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 4 hours and 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 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 ∠179.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠203.1°.
Moon is at apogee at 15:39 about 12 days since last perigee on 12 April 2082 at 15:53 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 11 May 2082 at 00:30 in ♏ Scorpio.
This apogee Moon is 406 316 km (252 473 mi) away from Earth. It is 908 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 393 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
2 days after ascending node on 22 April 2082 at 17:02 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 7 May 2082 at 01:12 in ♍ Virgo.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 17 April 2082 at 07:41 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.081° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.970° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 May 2082 at 23:20 in ♊ Gemini.
2 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 28 April 2082 at 02:02 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