Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 7% 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 passing about ∠5° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 23 May 2001 at 02:46.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2001 after 11 days on 6 June 2001 at 01:39.
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 2.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1943" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 17 of Meeus index or 970 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 12 minutes and it is 1 hour and 25 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 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 37 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 ∠299.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠324.1°.
10 days since point of apogee on 15 May 2001 at 01:29 in ♒ Aquarius 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 27 May 2001 at 07:07 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 368 964 km (229 264 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 036 km (228 687 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 13:51 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 7 June 2001 at 17:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 23:03 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.388°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.414° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 8 June 2001 at 05:02.
At 13:51 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 11 days on 6 June 2001 at 01:39 in ♐ Sagittarius 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
