Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% 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 ∠15° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 22 April 2096 at 17:43.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2096 after 13 days on 7 May 2096 at 11:06.
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 3.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1907".
The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1191 of Meeus index or 2144 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 52 minutes and it is 16 minutes longer 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 4 hours and 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 17 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 ∠354.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠10°.
Moon is at perigee at 01:06 about 13 days since last apogee on 9 April 2096 at 22:20 in ♏ Scorpio 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 7 May 2096 at 00:36 in ♏ Scorpio.
This perigee Moon is 357 311 km (222 023 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 197 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 045 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
12 days after descending node on 11 April 2096 at 07:47 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 24 April 2096 at 12:49 in ♊ Gemini.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 14 April 2096 at 12:29 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.278° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.323° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 April 2096 at 04:25 in ♋ Cancer.
26 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 13 days on 7 May 2096 at 11:06 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