Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 12% 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 ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 1 May 2098 at 08:32.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2098 after 10 days on 15 May 2098 at 07:16.
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 2.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1949" and ∠1902".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1216 of Meeus index or 2169 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 51 minutes and it is 2 hours and 8 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 2 hours and 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 16 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 ∠294.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠320.4°.
10 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 day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 May 2098 at 02:31 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 367 724 km (228 493 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 806 km (229 165 mi).
4 days after ascending node on 30 April 2098 at 01:09 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 12 May 2098 at 22:21 in ♎ Libra.
13 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 day to face maximum declination of ∠28.285° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 May 2098 at 02:37 in ♋ Cancer.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 10 days on 15 May 2098 at 07:16 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