Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 23 April 2098 at 13:33.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2098 after 14 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 2.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1862" and ∠1904".
The Moon is 28 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°.
6 days 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 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 May 2098 at 02:31 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 384 876 km (239 151 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 806 km (229 165 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 01:09 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 12 May 2098 at 22:21 in ♎ Libra.
9 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 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.285° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 May 2098 at 02:37 in ♋ Cancer.
At 01:09 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 1 day 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