Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 40% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 first ∠0° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 7 May 2094 at 14:47.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2094 after 21 days on 30 May 2094 at 00:58.
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 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1901".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1166 of Meeus index or 2119 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 32 minutes and it is 1 hour and 22 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 2 hours and 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 57 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 ∠45.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠74.7°.
Moon is at perigee at 13:33 about 14 days since last apogee on 23 April 2094 at 23:58 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 21 May 2094 at 19:13 in ♌ Leo.
This perigee Moon is 369 651 km (229 690 mi) away from Earth. It is 7 143 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 705 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
3 days after descending node on 4 May 2094 at 20:35 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 May 2094 at 21:46 in ♋ Cancer.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 5 May 2094 at 01:36 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.185° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.256° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 May 2094 at 05:10 in ♋ Cancer.
17 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 6 days on 14 May 2094 at 12:09 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