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Waning Crescent on
2 April 2008
Wednesday
Moon phase on 2 April 2008 Wednesday is Waning
Crescent, 25 days old Moon is in Aquarius.

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Moon phase for 2 April 2008

Wednesday 12:00 UTC

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Waning Crescent phase

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Waning Crescent 17% illuminated

Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on 2 April 2008,
Wednesday. Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the
Moon surface is 17% and getting smaller. The 25 days
old Moon is in Aquarius.

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Moon phase and lunation

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3 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before
3 days on 29 March 2008 at 21:47.

Moonrise and moonset

Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in
the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the
east.

Moon in Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠25° of Aquarius tropical
zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠ 1863"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% narrower than solar
disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are
∠1863" and ∠1919".

Pink Moon after 17 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2008 after
17 days on 20 April 2008 at 10:25.

Upcoming main Moon phases

New Moon in Aries after 3 days on 6 April 2008 at

03:55

First Quarter in Cancer after 10 days on

12 April 2008 at 18:32

Full Moon in Scorpio after 17 days on

20 April 2008 at 10:25

Last Quarter in Aquarius after 26 days on

28 April 2008 at 14:12

Moderate tide
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.

Lunation 101 / 1054

The Moon is 25 days old. Earth's natural satellite is
moving from the second to the final part of current
synodic month. This is lunation 101 of Meeus index or
1054 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.45 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and
41 minutes. It is 2 hours and 18 minutes longer than the
next lunation's length. The lengths of the following
synodic months are going to decreasing with the true
anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of
New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length shorter than

mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and
3 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It
is 4 hours and 6 minutes longer compared to 21st
century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on 2

April 2008 Wednesday
12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠ 310.8°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is
∠310.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true
anomaly is going to be ∠332.7°.

Moon before apogee

6 days after point of apogee on 26 March 2008 at 20:13
in Scorpio. 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 7 April 2008 at 19:28 in
Taurus.

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Distance to Moon 384 673 km

The Moon is 384 673 km (239 025 mi) away from Earth
and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point
perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be
361 083 km (224 367 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in Aquarius at 15:18
crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet
descending node 12 days later on 15 April 2008 at 05:48
in Leo.

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New draconic month

At 15:18 the Moon completes the previous draconic
month and enters the new one.

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Moon after southern standstill

4 days since the previous standstill on 28 March 2008 at
16:00 in Sagittarius when the Moon has reached
South declination of ∠-27.898°, the lunar orbit is
extending northward over the next 8 days to face
maximum declination of ∠27.812° at the point of next
northern standstill on 10 April 2008 at 17:42 in
Gemini.

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Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 6 April 2008 at 03:55 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.

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fl Sources and credits

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

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