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 about ∠17° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 7 days on 12 April 2099 at 10:47.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2099 after 15 days on 4 May 2099 at 17:58.
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 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1784" and ∠1910".
The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1227 of Meeus index or 2180 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 43 minutes and it is 2 hours and 56 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 3 hours and 59 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 4 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 ∠199.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠227.5°.
3 days since point of apogee on 16 April 2099 at 08:34 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 May 2099 at 05:55 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 401 767 km (249 646 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 037 km (226 202 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 18 April 2099 at 13:19 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 2 May 2099 at 00:59 in ♎ Libra.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 10 April 2099 at 17:12 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.656° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.599° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 April 2099 at 08:16 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 1 day on 20 April 2099 at 15:30 in ♈ Aries 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