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 ∠3° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 4 April 2095 at 16:36.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2095 after 12 days on 19 April 2095 at 18:14.
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 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1928" and ∠1916".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1178 of Meeus index or 2131 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 30 minutes and it is 22 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2095. 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 4 hours and 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 55 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 ∠9.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠26°.
3 days since point of perigee on 4 April 2095 at 03:40 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 April 2095 at 22:45 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 371 839 km (231 050 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 156 km (252 374 mi).
10 days after descending node on 27 March 2095 at 18:10 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 9 April 2095 at 05:17 in ♊ Gemini.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 29 March 2095 at 04:59 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.592° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.694° at the point of next northern standstill on 10 April 2095 at 17:25 in ♋ Cancer.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 12 days on 19 April 2095 at 18:14 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