Location: United States Latitude: 37.751 Longitude: -97.822 Time Zone: (CST), GMT-06:00 Time Zone ID: America/Chicago
Apr 20
Waxing Crescent ↑
Illumination: 1%
Apr 21
Waxing Crescent ↑
Illumination: 3%
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Apr 22
Waxing Crescent ↑
Illumination: 9%
Apr 23
Waxing Crescent ↑
Illumination: 15%
Apr 24
Waxing Crescent ↑
Illumination: 23%
Moon phase details
for Saturday, April 22, 2023
• Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent ↑
• Illumination: 9%
• Moon Age: 2.88 days
• Moon Angle: 0.51
• Moon Distance: 392,390.252 km
• Moonrise: 08:17 am
• Moonset: 11:26 pm
• Sun Angle: 0.53
• Sun Distance: 150,416,762.210 km
• Sunrise: 06:49 am
• Golden Hour Ends: 07:24 am
• Golden Hour Starts: 07:37 pm
• Sunset: 08:12 pm
• Length of day: 13h 23m
07:00 pm
6%
08:00 pm
7%
09:00 pm
8%
10:00 pm
9%
11:00 pm
10%
Moon phase for April 2023
Full Moon
Apr 5
11:37 pm
Last Quarter
Apr 13
04:12 am
New Moon
Apr 19
11:15 pm
First Quarter
Apr 27
04:21 pm
Moon position in the sky
Illumination:
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Pictures courtesy of: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Moon phases calculated with: Lune.js. Moonrise and moonset calculated with: SunCalc. This page includes Geonames data, available from geonames.org.
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on 22 April 2023, Saturday. Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction
of the Moon surface is 6% and growing larger. The 2 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini. Previous date | Moon Today |
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Moon phase and lunation details
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 20 April 2023 at 04:12. Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early
evening. Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector. Lunar disc appears visually 3.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1837" and ∠1909". Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2023 after 13 days on
5 May 2023 at 17:34.2 days after New Moon
Moonrise and moonset
Moon is entering ♊ Gemini
Apparent angular diameter
∠1837"
Flower Moon after 13 days
Upcoming main Moon phases
Neap tide
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.
Lunation 288 / 1241
The Moon is 2 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 288 of Meeus index or 1241 from Brown series.
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Synodic month length 29.49 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 41 minutes. It is 1 hour and 3 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 3 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 6 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on 22 April 2023 Saturday 12:00 UTC
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠59.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠92.6°. 6 days after point of perigee on
16 April 2023 at 02:22 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on
28 April 2023 at 06:43 in ♌ Leo. Previous perigeeNext apogee The Moon is 390 116 km (242 407 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 300 km (251 220 mi). 2 days after ascending node on 20 April 2023 at 11:32 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node
on 4 May 2023 at 21:57 in ♎ Libra. Previous
nodeNext node 2 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle. PreviousCurrent draconic monthNext 10 days since the previous standstill on 12 April 2023 at 03:15 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination
of ∠-27.947°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.957° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 April 2023 at 05:53 in ♋ Cancer. Previous standstillNext standstill In 13 days on 5 May 2023 at 17:34 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. Previous syzygyNext syzygyTrue anomaly ∠59.2°
Moon before perigee
Distance to Moon 390 116 km
Moon after ascending node
Draconic month
Moon before northern standstill
Syzygy in 13 days