Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% 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 ∠18° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 21 April 2088 at 10:25.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2088 after 13 days on 5 May 2088 at 16:25.
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 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1908".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1092 of Meeus index or 2045 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 24 minutes and it is 1 hour and 19 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 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 49 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠331.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠348.3°.
11 days since point of apogee on 11 April 2088 at 05:21 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 April 2088 at 04:05 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 365 679 km (227 222 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 490 km (224 619 mi).
1 day after descending node on 21 April 2088 at 17:47 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 4 May 2088 at 21:55 in ♏ Scorpio.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 11 April 2088 at 07:55 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.390° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.385° at the point of next northern standstill on 24 April 2088 at 17:34 in ♊ Gemini.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 13 days on 5 May 2088 at 16:25 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