Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 8% 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 ∠20° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 6 June 2054 at 02:40.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2054 after 11 days on 20 June 2054 at 03:42.
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 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1890".
The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 673 of Meeus index or 1626 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 54 minutes and it is 40 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 4 hours and 50 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 19 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 ∠316.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠336°.
Moon is at perigee at 21:43 about 11 days since last apogee on 28 May 2054 at 00:43 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 16 days until point of next apogee on 24 June 2054 at 17:32 in ♒ Aquarius.
This perigee Moon is 365 007 km (226 805 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 499 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 5 349 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
10 days after descending node on 29 May 2054 at 02:37 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 June 2054 at 07:33 in ♍ Virgo.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 7 June 2054 at 14:08 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.164° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.200° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 June 2054 at 19:41 in ♑ Capricorn.
24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 11 days on 20 June 2054 at 03:42 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
