Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 41% 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 about ∠15° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 23 April 2098 at 13:33.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2098 after 20 days on 15 May 2098 at 07:16.
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 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1907".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1215 of Meeus index or 2168 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 45 minutes and it is 2 hours and 54 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 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 7 hours and 2 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 ∠260.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠294.5°.
1 day since point of apogee on 23 April 2098 at 14:16 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 May 2098 at 02:31 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 405 067 km (251 697 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 806 km (229 165 mi).
8 days after descending node on 15 April 2098 at 14:53 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 30 April 2098 at 01:09 in ♈ Aries.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 21 April 2098 at 01:51 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.319° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.285° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 May 2098 at 02:37 in ♋ Cancer.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 1 May 2098 at 08:32 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