Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 5 June 2031 at 11:58.
Strawberry Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2031 after 28 days on 4 July 2031 at 19:01.
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1971"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1891".
Lunation 388 / 1341
The Moon is 16 days old and navigating from the middle to the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 388 of Meeus index or 1341 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 7 minutes and it is 9 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 23 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 40 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠139.8°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠139.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠165.9°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 12:11 about 12 days since last apogee on 25 May 2031 at 02:08 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 21 June 2031 at 11:25 in ♋ Cancer.
This perigee Moon is 358 744 km(222 913 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 764 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 612 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 4 June 2031 at 09:20 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 17 June 2031 at 09:18 in ♉ Taurus.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 5 June 2031 at 17:57 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.099° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.105° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 June 2031 at 02:22 in ♊ Gemini.
In 13 days on 19 June 2031 at 22:25 in ♊ Gemini 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.