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Waning Crescent on
19 April 2009
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Moon phase on 19 April 2009 Sunday is Waning

Crescent, 23 days old Moon is in Aquarius.

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Moon phase for 19 April

2009 Sunday 12:00 UTC
2009 | April 2009

Waning Crescent phase

Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific
Visualization Studio.

Waning Crescent 32%

illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on 19 April
2009, Sunday. Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of
the Moon surface is 32% and getting smaller. The 23
days old Moon is in Aquarius.

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Moon phases for next 7 days

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Moon phase and lunation

details

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before
1 day on 17 April 2009 at 13:36.

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 ∠21° of Aquarius tropical
zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter

∠ 1790"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar
disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are
∠1790" and ∠1910".

Flower Moon after 19 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2009 after
19 days on 9 May 2009 at 04:01.

Upcoming main Moon phases

New Moon in Taurus after 5 days on

25 April 2009 at 03:23

First Quarter in Leo after 12 days on

1 May 2009 at 20:44

Full Moon in Scorpio after 19 days on

9 May 2009 at 04:01

Last Quarter in Aquarius after 27 days on

17 May 2009 at 07:26

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 114 / 1067

The Moon is 23 days old. Earth's natural satellite is
moving from the second to the final part of current
synodic month. This is lunation 114 of Meeus index or
1067 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.47

days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and
17 minutes. It is 2 hours and 29 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 1 hour and
27 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month
length. It is 4 hours and 42 minutes longer compared
to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on 19

April 2009 Sunday
12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠ 282.4°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly
is ∠282.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month
the true anomaly is going to be ∠311.7°.

Moon after apogee

3 days after point of apogee on 16 April 2009 at
09:15 in Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting
narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It
will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the
Moon reaches the point of next perigee on
28 April 2009 at 06:26 in Gemini.

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Distance to Moon 400 322 km

The Moon is 400 322 km (248 749 mi) away from
Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the
point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to
be 366 042 km (227 448 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 18 April 2009 at 05:19
in Aquarius. The Moon is located north of the
ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit
crosses from North to South in descending node on
1 May 2009 at 07:50 in Leo.

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Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month
in Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the
beginning to the first part of the cycle.

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Moon after southern standstill

4 days since the previous standstill on 14 April 2009
at 13:02 in Sagittarius when the Moon has
reached South declination of ∠-26.665°, the lunar
orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to
face maximum declination of ∠26.567° at the point of
next northern standstill on 28 April 2009 at 08:50 in
Gemini.

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Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 25 April 2009 at 03:23 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.

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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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