Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 11% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 5 April 2084 at 05:52.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2084 after 12 days on 20 April 2084 at 17:52.
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% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1787" and ∠1915".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1042 of Meeus index or 1995 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 40 minutes and it is 1 hour and 1 minute 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 56 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 7 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 ∠92.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠128.4°.
11 days since point of perigee on 27 March 2084 at 14:45 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 April 2084 at 15:02 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 401 194 km (249 290 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 434 km (251 304 mi).
9 days after ascending node on 30 March 2084 at 08:50 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 April 2084 at 07:00 in ♋ Cancer.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 27 March 2084 at 20:57 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.978° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠25.857° at the point of next northern standstill on 10 April 2084 at 10:37 in ♊ Gemini.
9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 20 April 2084 at 17:52 in ♎ Libra 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